Just over one year ago, Defend Public Health began publicly tracking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s deceptions, distortions and disinformation in a weekly website feature, the RFK Jr. Whopper o...

The company behind the controversial generative AI tool wants to continue building adoption momentum as usage spreads across federal agencies.

When Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to encourage the domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, Kennedy’s MAHA supporters were angry. Kennedy told listeners that glyphos...

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After a year of relentless attacks on the health of Americans from the highest levels of government, Defend Public Health believes it is critical to not just fight back against those attacks, but to a...

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Some candidates are making public health a central part of their midterm campaigns amid Trump’s war on science

Some candidates are making public health a central part of their midterm campaigns amid Trump’s war on science

For National Public Health Week, we look at Secretary Kennedy’s claims to be “restoring trust” in public health. Unfortunately, he is doing the opposite and weakening America’s scientific, medical, an...

Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 ​vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials had been too low to generate the needed...

A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, healt...

The March ​meeting of the U.S. advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover ‌has been postponed, according to a spokesman for the U.S....

Preliminary Injunction stays Secretary Kennedy's pediatric vaccine schedule. Secretary Kennedy's 13 appointments to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) are stayed for likely havin...

For National Public Health Week, we look at Secretary Kennedy’s claims to be “restoring trust” in public health. Unfortunately, he is doing the opposite and weakening America’s scientific, medical, an...

The budget lacks any commitment, let alone policy ideas, to address families’ struggles to afford housing, health care, food, utilities, and child care.