Michelle R. Smith

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Michelle R. Smith

1 week ago | yumasun.com | Michelle Smith |Michelle R. Smith

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life of a second child, his comments made waves because he has spent 20 years making false claims that vaccines are unsafe. Many of Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies stood by him anyway, trying to tamp down concerns from others who accused Kennedy of abandoning their movement.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Laura Ungar |Michelle R. Smith |Devi Shastri

1 week ago | thetimestribune.com | Laura Ungar |Michelle Smith |Devi Shastri |Michelle R. Smith

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through Texas communities in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say. kAm}2E:@?H:56[ :>>F?:K2E:@? AC@8C2>D 92G6 366? =67E 3C:EE=6 3J J62CD @7 DE28?2?E 7F?5:?8 3J 7656C2=[ DE2E6 2?5 =@42= 8@G6C?>6?ED] w62=E9 56A2CE>6?ED 8@E 2?

2 months ago | normantranscript.com | Michelle Smith |Michelle R. Smith

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline, The Associated Press has found. The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from medical experts due to his two decades of anti-vaccine activism.