Three people have died so far in the US, the highest number of yearly deaths since 1992.
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1,000 Measles Cases in the US, But Few Solutions From RFK Jr. Read Post »
On Wednesday, following controversy about inconsistencies in her résumé, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to become Surgeon General, and gave the nod to alternative medicine practitioner and author Dr. Casey Means. “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Dr. […]
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Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Wants to “Raise the Vibration of Humanity” Read Post »
Last week, baffling many and delighting a few, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared during a Trump administration cabinet meeting that he’s engaged in a hunt for what he said were 300,000 missing children trafficked by the Biden administration. “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” […]
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The Brain Rot Cabinet Read Post »
The termination of the committee will also reduce transparency within the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Trump White House Ends Federal Committee Tasked With Creating Health Guidelines Read Post »
Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for Washington, DC, had recently been peppering medical journals with “vaguely threatening” letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates. Those missives are just one genre within a barrage of communiques Martin has sent to perceived Trump foes—congressional Democrats, special counsel Jack Smith, a former Mueller prosecutor, […]
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RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals Read Post »
The layoffs had decimated the workforce that processes Freedom of Information Act requests across FDA centers.
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FDA Reverses Course, Rehires Staff Handling Public Records After Mass Layoffs Read Post »
A Trump official spoke of an “autism registry” then walked it back. Organizers still fear infringements on rights.
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We Can’t Let RFK Jr. Divide Our Autistic Community Based on Our Support Needs Read Post »
The vast majority of people diagnosed with a measles infection this year were unvaccinated, the CDC reported.
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As RFK Downplays Measles, CDC Reports Nearly 900 Infections Counted in 2025 Read Post »
On Thursday, House Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) introduced a formal inquiry demanding more information from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the decision to dismantle the Administration for Community Living (ACL), which oversees programs vital to independence and quality of life for disabled and aging adults. Kennedy’s HHS […]
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Democrats Launch Inquiry Into Dismantling of Administration for Community Living Read Post »
On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities—including autistic people, about whom Kennedy also spreads harmful disinformation. The budget document is a proposal, […]
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HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes Read Post »
While his anti-vaccine allies swooned and scientists cringed, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his first-ever press conference this week, in response to new data showing an apparent increase in the number of autistic kids, to promote a variety of debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist ideas about autism. He painted the condition as a […]
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RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism Read Post »
To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to medical consensus and decades of study—autism is an appalling, family-destroying “disease.” To pediatric psychiatrists and autism experts like Vanderbilt University’s Zachary Warren, speaking Wednesday to National Public Radio, autism “isn’t a single thing; it is a word we use in an attempt to […]
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RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet. Read Post »
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