US health agency workers accuse RFK Jr of fueling violence against them More than 750 workers in letter say HHS secretary’s rhetoric played a role in recent attack at CDC’s Atlanta headquarters The Guardian - US · Aug 20, 2025
Trump's health agency streamlining goals hit roadblock - Roll Call Five months since the Trump administration rolled out grand plans for a signature health agency, Congress has shied away from making it happen. Roll Call · Aug 18, 2025
RFK Jr denies 2028 presidential ambitions after attacks from Trump influencer Laura Loomer HHS chief took to social media with deference to president after ‘Trump’s Rasputin’ said he was plotting move The Guardian - US · Aug 16, 2025
Judge orders RFK Jr’s HHS to stop sharing Medicaid info with ICE Trump administration can’t tap into Medicaid data for millions of people to help make arrests, judge says The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025
RFK Jr. has been using Medicaid information to violate the Constitution, but a judge just put an end to it Another illegal thing on Junior Kennedy's long list. We Got This Covered · Aug 15, 2025
“It’s crazy that White Pony was 25 years old this year, even crazier that one of our fans owns one of the ESPs used to record it”: Stephen Carpenter’s ESP Horizon Custom from Deftones’ Back to School video has been valued at $55,000 The S-style – which was used on Around the Fur – has been verified by Carpenter himself Guitar World · Aug 15, 2025
RFK Jr.’s plans to overhaul ‘vaccine court’ system would face legal and scientific challenges For almost 40 years, people who suspect they’ve been harmed by a vaccine have been able to turn to a little-known system called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program – often simply called the vaccine court. The Conversation · Aug 15, 2025
Laura Loomer sets her sights on her next target to get the boot from the Trump administration ‘I’m not naive enough to think that the president is going to get rid of RFK, but I will say that … there are concerns about some of the staffing decisions over at HHS,’ Laura Loomer said this week. The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2025
‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’ The Guardian - US · Aug 13, 2025
The future of cancer treatment is ‘personalized’ mRNA vaccines. Experts fear RFK research cuts will jeopardize that HHS announced last week that it would slash hundreds of millions in grants for Covid, flu and infectious disease research The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025
CDC Shooting Linked To Suspect's COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs, Former Staff Blame RFK Jr. Hostility Toward Agency A group of former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees are blaming HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for vilifying the agency’s workforce through “his continuous lies about science and vaccine safety, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust." Benzinga · Aug 12, 2025
Trump law will cut food stamps for 2.4 million people as work rules widen Parents of teens, adults up to 64 years old and veterans must work, volunteer or train to keep benefits, CBO finds The Guardian - US · Aug 12, 2025
The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office Editorial: The decision by the US health and human services secretary to remove mRNA research funding is ill-informed and dangerous The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025
Vinay Prasad's Comeback To FDA Sparks Debate Over Regulatory Direction In a stunning reversal, Dr. Vinay Prasad is returning to his role as director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), just days after his resignation. Benzinga · Aug 11, 2025
The Guardian - US · Aug 9, 2025 Atlanta CDC gunman believed Covid vaccine made him suicidal, official says Shooter, a 30-year-old man who died during violence, fired dozens of rounds into buildings and killed police officer
Al Jazeera · Aug 9, 2025 How RFK Jr’s vaccine funding cuts fit with Trump’s vision Latest move to cut funding for vaccines is not down to US health secretary. It is part of Trump’s wider war on science.
Benzinga · Aug 8, 2025 AbbVie Inclusion In Medicare Drug Talks Fails To Justify Lawsuit, Court Rules AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV), the manufacturer of Imbruvica, is at the center of a constitutional challenge to the federal government's new Drug Price Negotiation Program.
LiveScience · Aug 8, 2025 'These decisions were completely reckless': Funding cuts to mRNA vaccines will make America more vulnerable to pandemics mRNA expert Jeff Coller spoke with Live Science about the future of mRNA vaccines in the United States in the aftermath of huge federal funding cuts.
Benzinga · Aug 6, 2025 RFK Jr. Sued By Eli Lilly, Amgen Over Drug Discount Program Three major pharmaceutical companies — Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN), Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE:LLY), and UCB SA (OTC:UCBJY) (OTC:UCBJF) — are suing U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the way his department is handling a drug discount program.
Roll Call · Aug 6, 2025 HHS phases out mRNA vaccine trials for COVID-19, bird flu - Roll Call HHS says the elimination of 22 mRNA vaccine development projects for COVID-19 and bird flu signals a shift in vaccine priorities.
The Guardian - US · Aug 6, 2025 RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
International Business Times · Aug 6, 2025 US Axes MRNA Vaccine Contracts, Casting Safety Doubts President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a technology credited with helping end the Covid pandemic and saving millions of lives.
Roll Call · Aug 5, 2025 Harm reduction techniques being phased out under Trump - Roll Call The Trump administration is phasing out harm reduction practices use to combat overdoses.
Benzinga · Aug 5, 2025 FDA Sounds Alarm On Nationwide Butter Recall: Upgrades Risk Over Allergen Warning The Food and Drug Administration has heightened concerns over a nationwide butter recall, escalating the risk level after discovering the presence of an undeclared major allergen.