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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Stolberg
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Thursday that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely takes place. In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that “all new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials” before approval, and called the move a “radical departure” from existing standards.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Sheryl Stolberg |Teddy Rosenbluth |Apoorva Mandavilli
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, on Saturday instructed leaders of the nonprofit he founded to take down a webpage that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s site but laid out a case that vaccines cause autism. The page had been published on a site apparently registered to the nonprofit, the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | David Fahrenthold |Sheryl Stolberg |Sharon LaFraniere |Christina Jewett
WASHINGTON — A conservative nonprofit has posted the names and photos of more than 50 federal workers on what it is calling a “watch list” related to diversity, equity and inclusion, asking President Donald Trump to fire them. The group says the workers named in its “DEI bureaucrat watch list” supported diversity, criticized Trump on social media or made donations to Democrats. Many of the targets are Black workers at health agencies.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Sheryl Stolberg |Noah Weiland
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. battled his way through his second Senate confirmation hearing, defending his views on vaccination during a raucous three-hour session Thursday that featured shouting matches, angry accusations, and a senator in tears, and also exposed the deep misgivings of a key Republican who could hold Kennedy’s future in his hands.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Noah Weiland |Sheryl Stolberg
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces has roughly doubled since President Biden took office, but White House officials warned Wednesday that the surge in Americans taking advantage of increased government health care subsidies could face risks as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Sheryl Stolberg |Susanne Craig
A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Yet Kennedy’s early fight for sobriety was far from the end of his battles with demons and self-destructive impulses.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
boston.com | Sheryl Stolberg |Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Politics President-elect Donald Trump has encouraged him to "go wild on health" but has not made clear what role Kennedy will play. When 12,000 public health professionals gathered in Minneapolis last week for the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as surgeon general in the first administration of President-elect Donald Trump, issued a pointed warning about Robert F.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Michael Shear |Sheryl Stolberg
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden addresses world leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday morning, his aides promise a speech filled with declarations about America’s role in shaping the future. They say he will “reaffirm America’s leadership,” “rally global action” and provide “his vision for how the world should come together” on its most pressing challenges.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
myheraldreview.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Stolberg
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the United States, overriding fierce decades-long objections from the pharmaceutical industry. The approval, issued in a letter to Florida on Friday, is a major policy shift for the United States, and supporters hope it will be a significant step forward in the long and largely unsuccessful effort to reign in drug prices.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Sheryl Stolberg |Christina Jewett
The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the United States, overriding fierce decades-long objections from the pharmaceutical industry, according to a senior administration official. The approval is a major policy shift for the United States, and supporters hope it will be a significant step forward in the long and largely unsuccessful effort to reign in drug prices.
