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RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets. We Asked an Autistic Poet.

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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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Trump Signs Executive Order Delaying Negotiations for Prescription Drug Prices

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One policy advocate described the move as “a total capitulation to the demands of drug corporation lobbyists.”

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Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge

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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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Along With Measles, Whooping Cough Cases Surge as Vaccine Rates Drop

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Experts say outbreaks of preventable diseases could get much worse with Trump’s cuts to public health infrastructure.

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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

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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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Trump Cuts to Federal Health Funding Thwart Cities’ and States’ Measles Response

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As of this week, cases were nearing 650 in 22 states, on track to reach a 34-year high.

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During a Past Measles Outbreak, RFK Jr. Dismissed Concern as “Hysteria”

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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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Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism

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When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.

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