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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 04: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee met to hear testimony on President Trump's 2026 health care agenda. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. engages in fiery exchange with senators during hearing: ‘We are the sickest country in the world’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questioning from members of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday during a tense testimony.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Monarez is a health scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology who previously served as the Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

HHS: CDC Director Monarez ousted 4 weeks after being confirmed

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has revealed that Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been removed from her position.

US President Donald Trump (R) listens as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event on "Making Health Technology Great Again," in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.: HHS will ‘address’ external interventions ‘clearly, almost certainly causing autism’ in September

Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed that his agency is preparing to make an announcement next month regarding the study he introduced in April to fully examine the “interventions” that “clearly, almost certainly” cause autism, he announced.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 08: Grace Thomson receives the coronavirus vaccine from Paula McMahon at the Louisa Jordan Hospital as the roll out begins on December 8, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. A batch of 65,000 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine arrived in the country at the weekend, it will be offered to all those over the age of eighteen a total of about 4.4 million people in Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell - Pool /Getty Images)

FDA approves new Moderna COVID vaccine in limited capacity

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna’s next generation lower-dose COVID-19 vaccines.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - JUNE 10: President-elect of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a press conference at Palacio Nacional on June 10, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Sheinbaum Declines Trump’s Offer Of Sending U.S. Troops Into Mexico To Combat Cartel Drug Smugglers

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal of sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat Mexican cartel drug trafficking operations.