All posts tagged "Health And Human Services"

Health and Human Services commissioned a new study that links transgender ideology and left-wing violence, The New York Post reported.

The Trump administration funded researchers and independent collaborators to study a correlation between transgender beliefs and political violence. The new study, which was released on Wednesday, was put together by researchers at Rutgers University, the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, and the Network Contagion Research Institute, according to The New York Post.

Respondents in the study were asked about six potential targets of political violence, including Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, wealthy people's property, and the police, The Post reported. ...

The White House killed an ad campaign by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a costly Kristi Noem project, according to a new report.

According to an article by NOTUS, immigration-related ads that Noem filmed while she led the Department of Homeland Security made the White House "skittish" about greenlighting RFK Jr.'s health-focused ad campaign.

Two anonymous sources told NOTUS that RFK Jr. had plans for a "Take Back Your Health" ad campaign and was taking bids for "bold, edgy" pitches for TV and digital ads. NOTUS reported that the campaign would have cost as much as $20 million....

Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reduced a key government immunizations committee to a “talk show” by inviting a presentation from a leading anti-vaccine campaigner, a former senior government physician said.

Dr. Fiona Havers also said her prediction on resigning last month as a senior adviser on vaccine policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that Americans would die as a result of Kennedy’s actions, was coming true.

In June, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP. Last week, the new members held a public meeting....

A visibly frustrated lawmaker tried to find out why Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has allegedly avoided legitimate public review of his policy decisions on vaccines.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Kennedy's actions on vaccines since taking the helm of HHS, include launching a government study on autism "led by someone who has previously promoted debunked links between vaccines and autism; changing recommendations for COVID vaccines; and pulling back on vaccine research and development, such as canceling a contract with drug company Moderna to develop a new flu vaccine using mRNA technology, which was used to make COVID vaccines."

On Tuesday, Kennedy testified before the the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health....

The sensitive health records of "hundreds of millions of Americans" are at risk, now that the Department of Government Efficiency has purged IT staffers who managed the information at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to new reporting from WIRED.

The cybersecurity infrastructure that protected the information from exposure "is in danger of possible collapse" because many of the staffers let go "were responsible for helping ensure that the mass of highly personal and sensitive information these agencies collect is kept secure," wrote reporter David Gilbert.

Employees who were subject to the reduction in force (RIF) by Elon Musk's DOGE told WIRED "that without intervention, they believe the systems they managed could go dark, potentially putting the entire health care system at risk."...

A professor with the Yale School of Public Health claimed that Donald Trump is "destroying a generation of knowledge" just like Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution.

Gregg Gonsalves wrote for The Nation, "What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917."

He continued, "Just because this moment isn’t associated with the intense political bloodshed of those eras doesn’t make the comparison any less apt. In one way or another, the goal is to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions in the service of a radical ideology."...