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 »
One policy advocate described the move as “a total capitulation to the demands of drug corporation lobbyists.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order Delaying Negotiations for Prescription Drug Prices Read Post »
On Wednesday, S.W., an award-winning probationary worker at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent the day crying in bed. S.W., who is being identified by her initials due to fear of retaliation for speaking out, is one of more than 24,000 federal probationary employees, those who have been in their jobs for […]
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Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge Read Post »
Experts say outbreaks of preventable diseases could get much worse with Trump’s cuts to public health infrastructure.
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Along With Measles, Whooping Cough Cases Surge as Vaccine Rates Drop Read Post »
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—which was taped Tuesday and aired on CBS News Wednesday morning—Kennedy claimed to endorse the vaccine after a record […]
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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine Read Post »
As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high.
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Trump Cuts to Federal Health Funding Thwart Cities’ and States’ Measles Response Read Post »
In early 2015, the California Department of Public Health identified a case of measles in an 11-year-old who had recently traveled to Disneyland. Within a month, at least 125 US residents were stricken with the disease. About a third of them had visited the Magic Kingdom theme park, many were unvaccinated, and the outbreak spread […]
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During a Past Measles Outbreak, RFK Jr. Dismissed Concern as “Hysteria” Read Post »
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.
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Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism Read Post »
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