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. ...
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6 Ways to Calm Your Anxiety When Economic Stress Flares
Even before this year’s economic turmoil hit, financial anxiety among Americans was running high. Really high.Four out of five Americans ...
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 ...
‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in E.R.’s
The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard ...
5 Science-Backed Longevity Hacks That Don’t Cost a Fortune
Training your brain to be more positive is an effective and easier option. Emerging research suggests optimism can extend your ...
RFK Jr. Offers Qualified Support for Measles Vaccination
In a rare sit-down interview with CBS News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, recommended the measles vaccine ...
The Lab Racing to Find Out What Microplastics Are Doing to Our Bodies
In a basement laboratory at the University of New Mexico, Marcus Garcia rummaged through a bin full of plastic waste. ...
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. ...
Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal
As the Trump administration moves to dismantle international public health safeguards, pull funding from local health departments and legitimize health ...
Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C.
Alongside extensive reductions to the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Trump administration has asked the ...
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 ...
Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts
The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women ...
For John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down
Nolen: The first TB patient that I sat down with in Nairobi was a man who had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, ...
Measles Cases in Kansas May Be Linked to Texas Outbreak
Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in ...
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that ...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical ...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health was preparing to ...
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 ...
Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say
As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting ...
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