Food companies were told by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday he wants artificial dyes stripped from their products, and encouraged fast-food chains to switch to beef tallow instead of seed oils for French fries.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aiming to improve price transparency on healthcare costs by directing federal agencies to strictly enforce a 2019 order he signed during his first term.
New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James warned hospitals in the state against canceling appointments for transgender procedures on minors after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect children from irreversible surgeries and hormone therapy.
The bird flu virus found in a severely ill patient hospitalized in the United States has mutated to become better adapted to human airways, though there is no evidence it has spread beyond the individual, authorities said.
The High Court will soon decide whether states can protect kids from irreversible sex change procedures, stemming from a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children. The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld Tennessee’s protections for children.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation Thursday aimed at increasing healthcare access and giving Americans more alternatives to Obamacare and employer-sponsored health insurance.
Nearly 14,000 children underwent sex changes across the country from 2019 to 2023, according to a new database that tracks transgender children’s clinics.
The Biden administration will pay $176 million to Moderna to create an “mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine,” with health officials citing “lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical services for children.
The justices will weigh an appeals court ruling that upheld the state’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgery for minors.