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RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts
Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a ...
HHS, EPA to study fluoride in drinking water as RFK Jr. says he’ll tell CDC to stop recommending it
The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it is reconvening the Community Preventative Services Task ...
RFK Jr. to lay off more NIH employees amid HHS restructuring, officials say
The additional layoffs at the National Institutes of Health come less than a week after the initial wave of cuts in Secretary ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says some HHS staff will be reinstated after being mistakenly cut
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that some of the programs and workers purged in last week's dramatic restructuring plan to shed 20,000 staffers will be ...
RFK Jr’s long, complicated history with the measles vaccines
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine ...
RFK Jr talks Kennedy history on first trip as HHS chief, inspires gov to order ‘Mountaineer Mile’ for ‘MAHA'
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Gov. Patrick Morrisey last week to announce a first in the ...
CDC denies Milwaukee's request for help with MPS lead poisoning probe. RFK Jr. slashed jobs.
The city's request, sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was denied "due to the complete loss of (CDC's) ...
Tensions flare as RFK Jr. adviser defends sweeping HHS cuts, calling it a ‘record of utter failure’
Means argued that the substantial cuts Kennedy has made to Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the ...
RFK Jr. pushes fluoride policy review, cites autism concerns
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told President Trump that new research linking fluoride exposure to lower IQ in children is prompting a reassessment of federal fluoride policies. He also announced ...