No one 'more damaging': CNN expert says insiders felt 'horror' over Trump pick
1 month, 1 week ago

No one 'more damaging': CNN expert says insiders felt 'horror' over Trump pick

Raw Story  

Dr. Sanjay Gupta tries to stay above the political fray, said CNN anchor Jake Tapper, but he couldn't remain silent on his opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. "You know, it's not often that the entire medical and public health community will be in lock-step on something, but they're pretty close on this in terms of their significant concerns, horror even," about RFK Jr., said Gupta. He relayed someone telling him, "I can't think of any single individual who would be more damaging to public health than RFK Jr." He agreed, saying, "If the reporting is correct, and the job is the secretary of Health and Human Services, that comprises the CDC. Another agency that Kennedy wanted to "compress," he noted, was the Food and Drug Administration, which investigates the safety of food and drugs, both over-the-counter and prescriptions, medical devices, and procedures.

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'More harm than good': Trump nominee expected to push 'high-risk' health research
1 week, 4 days ago

'More harm than good': Trump nominee expected to push 'high-risk' health research

Raw Story  

Donald Trump has nominated a controversial choice to oversee the National Institutes of Health, and both supporters and critics say he would likely push for more high-risk, high-reward research. The president-elect tapped Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who's both an epidemiologist and economist, to oversee the NIH and its nearly 19,000 employees across nearly 30 institutes and centers, and he's expected to …

'Things will start to topple': Report outlines possible public health disaster under Trump
2 weeks, 3 days ago

'Things will start to topple': Report outlines possible public health disaster under Trump

Raw Story  

A new report from NPR outlines just how quickly public health in the United States could unravel should anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. be confirmed to run the Health and Human Services Department. NPR spoke with several public health experts who feared that RFK Jr.'s appointment as the nation's top health official could "cause renewed, deadly epidemics of …

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team of medical contrarians and health care critics to fulfill an agenda aimed at remaking how the federal government oversees medicines, health programs and nutrition. On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, tapping an opponent of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates to lead the …

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Meet the medical contrarians picked to lead health agencies under Trump and Kennedy

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya …

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health

Associated Press  

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a 56-year-old physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his …

Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

Salon  

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with unprocessed trauma from the global pandemic. It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and …

Trump taps a surgeon, a former congressman and another Fox News personality to lead public health agencies
1 month ago

Trump taps a surgeon, a former congressman and another Fox News personality to lead public health agencies

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who gained national attention for opposing vaccine mandates and some other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a flurry of nominations late Friday night, Trump also tapped doctor and former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon of …

What Biden’s COVID czar learned from the pandemic
1 month ago

What Biden’s COVID czar learned from the pandemic

Salon  

Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, served as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator from March 2022 to June 2023. And two critics of the public health establishment, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, wrote that it would be harmful to mandate Covid-19 vaccines among young people. But I think there are a lot of people …

Trump fills out his key public health roles
1 month ago

Trump fills out his key public health roles

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article was first published on November 22. Trump, for his part, said on the campaign trail that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.” US surgeon general Also known as “the nation’s doctor,” the surgeon general is a medical doctor who focuses on educating and advising Americans on how to improve their …

Trump’s promises to overhaul health agencies with RFK met with optimism and dismay
1 month ago

Trump’s promises to overhaul health agencies with RFK met with optimism and dismay

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Others, like Dr Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC, have praised Trump for …

'Unimaginably far-reaching': Expert warns Trump's decision could have damaging effects
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1 month, 1 week ago

'Unimaginably far-reaching': Expert warns Trump's decision could have damaging effects

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump’s surprising pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services could have long-lasting consequences for the health and survival of the American public, according to a Washington Post health columnist. “The reason Kennedy is uniquely unfit compared with past nominees is that his approach to scientific inquiry is as an activist, not a scientist,” Wen, a …

'Monumental disaster': Conservative turns on Trump pick
1 month, 1 week ago

'Monumental disaster': Conservative turns on Trump pick

Raw Story  

A conservative writer for a well-known conservative publication on Thursday honed in on two key issues that he views as disqualifying for Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the country’s next Health and Human Services secretary – a selection he urged Republican senators to reject. Writing that Senate confirmation of RFK Jr. would be “a monumental disaster,” …

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ — vaccines, fluoride and food — has health experts worried
1 month, 1 week ago

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ — vaccines, fluoride and food — has health experts worried

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services “is an extraordinarily bad choice for the health of the American people,” Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, warned Thursday. Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned …

How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?
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1 month, 1 week ago

How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?

Al Jazeera  

Here is more about Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s US health secretary pick who is sceptical of vaccines, the FDA and fluoride in water. On Thursday, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up the country’s top health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F Kennedy …

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ — vaccines, fluoride and food — has health experts worried
1 month, 1 week ago

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ — vaccines, fluoride and food — has health experts worried

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services “is an extraordinarily bad choice for the health of the American people,” Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, warned Thursday. Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned …

"Make America Healthy Again": Trump taps RFK Jr. to lead Department of Health and Human Services
1 month, 1 week ago

"Make America Healthy Again": Trump taps RFK Jr. to lead Department of Health and Human Services

Salon  

Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in his second term. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote. "Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the …

America will soon discover how real the ‘deep state really is': columnist
1 month, 1 week ago

America will soon discover how real the ‘deep state really is': columnist

Raw Story  

Donald Trump’s promise to tear down the federal bureaucracy could deliver major consequences for public health organizations across the United States, but his efforts will simultaneously expose how “resilient the deep state really is,” which a columnist argued Monday is “actually much more benign” than the president-elect believes. While there “really is a deep state” operating within the federal health …

Experts Share What Another Trump Presidency Could Mean For Your Health
1 month, 1 week ago

Experts Share What Another Trump Presidency Could Mean For Your Health

Huff Post  

SAUL LOEBOLIVIER TOURON via Getty Images US President-elect Donald Trump on November 13, 2024, and Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on August 23, 2024. “During his last time in office, Trump botched the pandemic response, he spread misinformation everywhere, he contributed to restricting access to reproductive health care, he tried to repeal and he set the world back …

Letters to the Editor: I’m a doctor. This is what worries me about RFK Jr. in the Trump administration
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: I’m a doctor. This is what worries me about RFK Jr. in the Trump administration

LA Times  

A COVID-19 vaccination rests on a medical table at the Kaiser Permanente Venice Clinic on Sept. 6. To the editor: Now that Donald Trump will be president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be a strong influence on health policy in America, here is this doctor’s nightmare. And the Trump administration will control the development and release of health data, …

“Pack your bags” RFK Jr. tells FDA. His war on public health under Trump would only accelerate
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

“Pack your bags” RFK Jr. tells FDA. His war on public health under Trump would only accelerate

Salon  

President elect Donald Trump says he plans to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “big role” in health care in the new administration and let him “go wild” on health, food and medicine. “I am worried about the impact that could have on our nation's health, on our nation's economy, on our global security.” In the last weeks before Trump …

Why Big Pharma is terrified of RFK Jr's 'make America healthy again' pledge
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Big Pharma is terrified of RFK Jr's 'make America healthy again' pledge

Daily Mail  

The red wave that swept America this election cycle could have major health implications as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office. Dr Anthony Fauci, who led America's Covid response, also previously slammed Mr Kennedy — saying in an interview in July: 'I don't know what's going on in his head, but it's not good.' Writing on X, Mr …

'Narrowest message possible': Trump's latest promise baffles and alarms experts
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Narrowest message possible': Trump's latest promise baffles and alarms experts

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's pledge to take drinking water advice from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist known for bizarre theories and stories — has political experts wondering what the former president is doing and health experts hoping it won't work, according to a new report. Trump's comment last week that it sounded "okay" to heed Kennedy's calls to …

The election’s stakes for global health
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The election’s stakes for global health

Politico  

The WHO aims to complete negotiations on a pandemic deal that could oblige drugmakers, including U.S.-based ones, to share vaccines and drugs with the developing world. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Trump would torpedo the pandemic treaty, not just withdraw the United States, but literally make it impossible to negotiate,” said Larry Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute …

‘Take a blowtorch’: Trump cronies share how they plan to end ObamaCare
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Take a blowtorch’: Trump cronies share how they plan to end ObamaCare

Raw Story  

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson say they have big plans to implement "massive" changes to the entire U.S. food, drug, and health care system — from killing ObamaCare and all its protections, to handing over control of all health, food, and drug policies and agencies to conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy …

Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin: ‘Elections do matter for your health’
3 months ago

Doctors ‘fight like hell’ against a second Trump admin: ‘Elections do matter for your health’

Politico  

Doctors’ strong support for Harris is the culmination of a political shift that started with the battles over patients’ rights and HMOs in the early 2000s and gained speed with Donald Trump’s 2016 run — which drove educated professionals into the Democratic Party. He said doctors are “starting to realize that their advocacy for their patients doesn’t end within the …

'Would be disastrous': Doctors raise red flag over Trump's potential health appointee
3 months ago

'Would be disastrous': Doctors raise red flag over Trump's potential health appointee

Raw Story  

The New York Times has done a deep dive into the medical beliefs of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and newly minted Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and has found many medical officials are raising major red flags about his potential appointment to a public health position. These views make it unlikely that Kennedy would survive a Senate confirmation hearing for …

Trump calls for investigation to find out if White House covered up Biden’s health decline: ‘You had people that lied…’
5 months ago

Trump calls for investigation to find out if White House covered up Biden’s health decline: ‘You had people that lied…’

Hindustan Times  

In a new interview, Donald Trump called for an investigation to be launched to find out if the White House tried to cover up Joe Biden’s physical and mental decline. Trump calls for investigation to find out if White House covered up Biden’s health decline “Look, you had people that lied to the American public. I don’t think he’s in …

Trump's health questioned by expert after his latest doctor refuses to reveal details
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's health questioned by expert after his latest doctor refuses to reveal details

Raw Story  

The most recent report on Donald Trump's health is being questioned by an expert on aging who would like to provide the public with answers about the "projected life span and health" of President Joe Biden and the former president who is making a third run for the Oval Office. A November letter about Trump's health, written by Aronwald and …

Health agencies’ credibility at risk after week of blunders
4 years, 3 months ago

Health agencies’ credibility at risk after week of blunders

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The credibility of two of the nation’s leading public health agencies was under fire this week after controversial decisions that outside experts said smacked of political pressure from President Donald Trump as he attempts to move past the devastating toll of the coronavirus ahead of the November election. “There is a concern that if you are not seeing …

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