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I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them.

The Conversation

A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ Health

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices.

Capital & Main

Make America ChatGPT again: Experts say AI was used to create RFK Jr health report that cited false studies

Experts found evidence that scientific citations in the MAHA report were generated by AI, which experts slammed as ‘sloppy’ and ‘shoddy’

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Trump’s failed Surgeon General pick lands on her feet with a job at RFK Jr’s HHS

Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination was pulled after her education credentials came under scrutiny and a Trump ally criticized her endorsement of the Covid vaccine.

The Independent UK

Warnings over cuts by DOGE and RFK Jr to organization that keeps elderly people in their homes

Former employees of the Administration for Community Living say they fear it is being ‘broken up for spare parts,’ Eric Garcia reports

The Independent UK

RFK Jr Fails to Convince Users That a Database of People With Autism Would Be 'Protected': 'How Can He Be Trusted?'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to create a national autism database was met with doubt online as users questioned if those added would have their privacy protected.

Latin Times

Trump looks to end $56 million grant to give Narcan to first responders to help save lives during an overdose

Narcan – known generically as naloxone – is a nasal spray that works to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose in two to three minutes

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Trump administration’s letter of demands to Harvard that sparked standoff ‘sent without authorization’ - report

The letter from the White House’s task force on antisemitism triggered a standoff between the Trump administration and the historic institution that continues to rumble on

The Independent UK

FDA is quietly drawing up plans to end routine food safety inspections, report claims

The FDA denied that it was planning to make the changes

The Independent UK

Head Start funding lags by nearly $1 billion this year, causing some preschool closures

Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year

The Independent UK

RFK Jr calls autism an ‘epidemic’ and a tragedy. As an autistic journalist, I have some comments

ANALYSIS: ANALYSIS: Health Secretary wilfully misreads data that should be celebrated, not feared, writes Eric Garcia

The Independent UK

The sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens government accountability

Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased…

The Conversation

Experts fear rise in diseases as layoffs halt health research: ‘Incredibly bizarre gaslighting’

Trump administration’s dismantling of institutions under guise of ‘efficiency’ will lead to a grim future for Americans

The Guardian - US

EPA to review ‘new science’ on fluoride as RFK Jr. reportedly tells CDC to stop recommending it

Experts say taking fluoride out of drinking water would degrade public health

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Susan Monarez, Trump’s nominee for CDC director, faces an unprecedented and tumultuous era at the agency

The job of director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carries immense responsibility for shaping health policies, responding to crises and maintaining trust in public health institutions.

The Independent UK

After layoffs and funding problems, Head Start leaders fear what comes next

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program

The Guardian - US

US health agency layoffs gut mine safety, infertility and smoking programs

Thousands lost jobs as sweeping cuts reshape public health, leaving experts and lawmakers scrambling

Fortune

Analysts at Trump ally Howard Lutnick’s former firm call RFK Jr. ‘an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist with inadequate training’

RFK Jr. was reportedly behind the ouster of FDA’s top vaccine official and said last week that around 10,000 employees will be laid off at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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The Independent UK

Predawn firing spree at HHS leaves agencies gutted and Congress frustrated

Lines form outside of regional offices and D.C. headquarters as staffers learn their fates upon arrival

Fortune

Moderna and Novavax shares plunge after key FDA official steps down, citing discord with RFK Jr. who he says 'wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies'

Massive cuts to personnel and funding within the Department of Health and Human Services presents a headache for vaccine approval and development, analysts say.

Fortune

A DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts is back in government

Marko Elez has been assigned to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since March 5, per court filings.

Capital & Main

The Southern Women Handling 1-800-MEDICARE Calls Still Want a Union

Federal call center workers continue their fight after the Biden administration dialed back support for it.

The Independent UK

HHS spokesperson quits after reportedly clashing with RFK Jr over ‘muted’ measles response

Thomas Corry, who served as the department’s assistant secretary of public affairs for roughly two weeks, announced his resignation on LinkedIn

The Texas Tribune

Texas refugee aid group sues to unfreeze $36 million in federal funds

Catholic Charities Fort Worth says that its partners have had to lay off 750 people because of the freeze.

The Independent UK

Scientists reviewing Musk’s Neuralink are fired – then rehired – from FDA following flurry of DOGE cuts

Around 300 FDA staffers have been asked to return to work after Musk’s DOGE axed thousands of jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services

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