The Health Official Who Just Might Stand Up to RFK Jr.
A longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon and best-selling author, he has advised the World Health Organization and been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. (Makary, whose confirmation hearings kicked off in the Senate this morning,
FDA pick may differ from HHS head RFK Jr. on some key areas
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration is set to face the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday morning, where he’s likely to receive a flurry of questions ranging from recent firings at the agency to how he will advance Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy says he wants to make food safer. Trump wants to make it cheaper. Can we have both?
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to evaluate the chemicals in our food and take steps to make it safer. But those actions will cost money. Who will pay for them?
Read the resignation letter from FDA food director Jim Jones
Jim Jones, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s food division, slammed the “indiscriminate firing” of dozens of his employees and recent rhetoric from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his resignation letter to acting FDA commissioner Sara Brenner, which The Washington Post has reproduced below.
Through ‘radical transparency,’ Kennedy can finally rein in Big Pharma
Kennedy can provide doctors and healthcare professionals with the information they need to truly determine if a drug is safe, effective and reasonably priced
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FDA Cancels Critical Flu Vaccine Meeting With No Explanation
The FDA canceled a critical annual flu vaccine planning meeting without explanation days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took control of HHS.
RFK Jr. could further deter childhood vaccinations as rates fall in the U.S.
Some health policy experts say Kennedy’s early moves as HHS Secretary are concerning and suggest that he could undermine immunizations in less direct ways.
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What Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says About Black Folks and Vaccines Should Keep You Up at Night
The newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has some controversial opinions on health that even worry his family members
RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned vaccines could turn "birds into mutant factories."
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FDA committee meeting scrapped, reports say, in 2nd vaccine-related scheduling disruption in as many weeks
Disruptions to government-sanctioned advisory committee meetings on vaccines are becoming increasingly common after the recent confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noted vaccine skeptic ... the actual flu season. The FDA's Advisory Committee calendar ...
RFK Jr. ends transparency policy, cancels public meeting after openness vow
Federal health policies and decisions are quickly becoming less transparent under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—despite him telling Health Department employees just last month that he would work with them to "launch a new era of radical transparency ."
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With RFK Jr. in charge, supplement makers see chance to cash in
Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of vitamins, dietary supplements,