Federal health agencies are reeling from mass layoffs on Friday that appear to have particularly devastated the Centers for Disease […]
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Trump admin fires more health employees amid government shutdown
Questionable cull Today’s layoffs are the work of White House Budget Director Russell Vought, a lead creator of the Project […]
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”
Now that Kennedy has moved on to politics, stepping down from his role at Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and joining […]
RFK Jr. barred registered Democrats from being vaccine advisors, lawsuit says
The lawsuit was filed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Infectious Diseases […]
RFK Jr.‘s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration would hack off nearly a […]
“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.
Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slashing a total of 20,000 jobs across the Department of […]
RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in CDC funding amid wave of top-level departures
Those departures follow Kevin Griffis, head of the CDC’s office of communications, who left last week; Robin Bailey, the agency’s […]
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update this story with any new […]
RFK Jr. ends transparency policy, cancels public meeting after openness vow
Skip to content Kennedy vowed last month to usher in an era of “radical transparency.” US Secretary of Health and […]
RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign
Indefinite changes Stat asked the HHS specifically about the Wild to Mild campaign as well as promotional campaigns for other […]