Cod Liver Oil? Vaccines? A G.O.P. Skeptic Confronts Kennedy’s Fine Line on Measles
Perhaps no vote was as agonizing for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican and medical doctor, than his vote to ...
Tag: Health and Human Services Department
Measles Outbreak Continues to Spread in West Texas
A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, ...
How Trump’s Changes to U.S. Gender Policy Could Affect Your Passport
Last Friday, Hunter Schafer, the trans actress who starred in the HBO series “Euphoria,” posted an eight-and-a-half-minute video on TikTok ...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
A panel of scientific experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy — and has been the ...
F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
The Food and Drug Administration has reinstated dozens of specialized employees involved in food safety, review of medical devices and ...
Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety
In recent years, the Food and Drug Administration hired experts in surgical robots and pioneers in artificial intelligence. It scooped ...
RFK Jr. Announces New HHS Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had adopted a set of official government ...
Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is ...
Behind R.F.K. Jr.’s Vow to ‘Follow the Science’ on Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent the first day of his back-to-back confirmation hearings deftly avoiding questions about his views on ...
Top N.I.H. Official Abruptly Resigns as Trump Orders Deep Cuts
The No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health abruptly resigned and retired from government service on Tuesday, in ...
Young Aides Emerge as Enforcers in Musk’s DOGE Team Efforts
The secrecy, Musk allies have said, is necessary so the team members do not become targets.Several of Mr. Musk’s aides ...
Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders
Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the ...
Kennedy Says He Will Give HPV Vaccine Lawsuit Proceeds to His Son
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers in responses to questions released on Friday that he would divest his interest in ...
Fact-Checking RFK Jr.’s Health Claims on Obesity, Medicaid and Fluoride
During the hearing to consider his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames Kennedy for Measles Deaths in Samoa
It was a spasm of tragedy on a remote Pacific island that only a few months later was overshadowed by ...
Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary
Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” who ...
The $8 Billion Children’s Vaccine Fund Kennedy Would Oversee
When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, ...
Trump Reinstates Longstanding Republican Anti-Abortion Policy
President Trump on Friday reinstated a longstanding Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule,” which bars federal funding ...
Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’
Though Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of recovery farms may be novel, the concept stretches back almost a century. In 1935, the ...
RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and ...
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