Autism Rate Continues to Rise Among Children, C.D.C. Reports
The percentage of American children estimated to have autism spectrum disorder increased in 2022, continuing a long-running trend, according to ...
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The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. ...
RFK Jr. Accuses FDA of Drug Industry Influence That Barred Alternative Remedies
In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced ...
Experts Doubt Kennedy’s Timetable for Finding the Cause of Autism
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, pledged on Thursday to seek out experts globally to discover the reasons ...
RFK Jr. Hits His Stride in Arizona as His Chronic Disease Tour Wraps
The sun was bursting through the sandstone arch of Window Rock in northeastern Arizona, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
Amid Tension Around H.H.S. Cuts, Kennedy Meets With Tribal Leader
At the very moment that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was set to take the stage, the governor of ...
Vaccine cynic leading CDC’s autism investigation should raise alarm
My education of measles was, at one point, limited to a single page in a medical school textbook with a ...
As RFK Jr. Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken of an “existential threat” that he said can destroy the nation.“We have the highest ...
Kennedy to Kick Off MAHA Tour on Fighting Chronic Disease
A day after attending the funeral of an unvaccinated child who died of measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs
The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs ...
C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say
The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the ...
Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin
Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced ...
RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study
A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s thinking on a ...
10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a massive layoff of 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department, as ...
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens ...
Senate Confirms Bhattacharya and Makary to H.H.S. Posts
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Martin A. Makary as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Jay ...
Washington Bends to RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA’ Agenda on Measles, Baby Formula and French Fries
Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings.But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened ...
Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term
In her first briefing as White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt said she was “committed to telling the truth from ...
Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down ...
How Beef Tallow Made a Comeback
Will Burgess thinks his French fries taste better now that he fries them in beef tallow. But he isn’t using ...
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