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Activists gather during a vigil in Lafayette Park for nurses who died during the COVID-19 pandemic on January 13, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo …

Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce …

Medication abortion with the two-drug regime of mifepristone and misoprostol is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. Natalie Behring/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Natalie Behring/Getty Images …

Demand for sugary beverages goes up when it’s hot out. Here, delivering soda on a hot July day in New York City in 2016. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle …

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a strategy report of the Make America Healthy Again Commission intended to tackle childhood chronic disease. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images …

Phoenix Children’s Hospital, pictured during the pandemic on April 15, 2020, stands to lose $172 million a year, its chief executive says. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross …

FangXiaNuo/Getty Images/iStockphoto When new dietary guidelines are unveiled later this month, the Trump administration is expected to upend long-held advice on whole milk and its full-fat friends in the dairy …

Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again. This unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is trapped in a …

New dietary guidelines are coming soon. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised the days of skim milk and other low fat dairy products are over. Is there a …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was questioned by senators from both parties on Thursday about vaccine access and more. NPR analyzes the health secretary’s nearly three-hour appearance. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: In …