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RFK Jr. faces backlash over autism remarks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has spoken several times in April about plans to find the ...
RFK Jr. has a goal to study what's 'behind' autism by September. How realistic is it?
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the agency is planning to study what causes autism and release results in September.
RFK Jr calls autism an ‘epidemic’ and a tragedy. As an autistic journalist, I have some comments
On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr took to the stage of the Hubert Humphrey Building, which houses the Department of Health ...
Health chief RFK Jr.: Autism caused by environmental exposures; contradicts new CDC report
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday labeled the increasing rates of autism in children an epidemic and said ...
Now we know how many kids must die from measles before RFK Jr. tries to save them | Opinion
Apparently, even the vaccine skeptic health and human services secretary is coming around. Too bad it took measles deaths in ...
Medical News Today1d
Fact check: How long does protection from a measles vaccine last?
Medical News Today speaks to experts to fact-check some claims about measles and the MMR vaccine, namely U.S. Health ...
RFK Jr.'s mixed message about the measles outbreaks draws criticism from health officials
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to contain measles outbreaks around the country have drawn criticism from a ...
The Texas Tribune1d
In the West Texas measles outbreak, a new battle emerges — misinformation
Vaccine critics have downplayed the role of measles in two Texas girls’ deaths, peddled unproven measles treatments and ...
Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part ...
Former top health official criticizes RFK Jr. for downplaying measles deaths
The former top vaccines official at the Food and Drug Administration criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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. pledges an answer to the 'autism epidemic' by September
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting that, by September, his agency will "know what has ...