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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.ās new autism panel is championing a controversial communication method popular among parents of severely autistic people. Critics warn of abuse ā and fake ātelepathy.ā
The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the U.S. health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. That has changed.
A third of patients in a clinical trial had tumors shrink while taking a genetically engineered treatment known as RP1.
For all of President Donald Trumpās showmanship, the share of Americans his policies will likely help remains slim, even if some patients do come out ahead.
President Donald Trumpās immigration crackdown in Minneapolis forced families into hiding and catalyzed informal medical networks to deliver critical health care services.
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The CDC is recommending fewer childhood vaccines, although the ones it has jettisoned from the recommended schedule have successfully battled serious illness for years. Experts warn that if vaccine uptake falls, millions could be hospitalized ā or worse ā as a result of preventable diseases.
A session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the CDC, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described as a ācesspool of corruption.ā His crew voted to end a 34-year recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B.
A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
Drug industry officials and analysts praised the FDAās plans to streamline regulation of ābiosimilars,ā which are cheaper alternatives to biologic drugs. But patents that block such drugs from the U.S. market are getting harder to fight.
Floridaās surgeon general, spiritual healers, and Trump allies push their cures in a swampy outpost of anti-government absolutism and mystical belief.
Florida has announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children ā whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus ā are likely to make a resurgence and when.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on vaccines pitted scientific expertise against vaccine skepticism. An often confusing debate ended with critics of the current vaccine schedule tabling a vote to remove one of its cornerstones.
A lack of faith in the soundness of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionās new direction has led states to explore enacting their own vaccine policies. A patchwork of divergent recommendations and requirements could result.
Susan Monarez and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief medical officer Debra Houry described turmoil in an agency dominated by anti-vaccine political officials nominated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Advisory committee meetings help FDA scientists make decisions and increase public understanding of drug regulation, and abandoning them doesnāt make sense, former officials said.
The National Institutes of Healthās long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to politicos, NIH workers say.
Xlear, a maker of xylitol gum, has sued the Federal Trade Commission, saying the onus should be on government to prove that ingredients donāt live up to advertised claims. RFK Jr.ās āmedical freedomā allies have rallied to the cause.
After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%.
A new vaccine advisory panel appointed by the HHS secretary, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, reflected his unsupported claims about the safety of childhood inoculations.
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