Florida city votes to remove fluoride from drinking water, citing RFK Jr.'s comments as one of the reasons
A Florida city voted this week to remove fluoride from its drinking water, and one city commissioner cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s past comments on the issue as one reason. The City Commission of Winter Haven, Florida, voted 3-2 on Tuesday to remove fluoride from the city's water by January 1 of next year, or […]
RFK Jr. Lays Out Vision to ‘Free’ HHS from the ‘Smothering Cloud of Corporate Capture’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has vowed to “free” HHS and other agencies from the “veiling cloud of corporate takeovers” and “Make America.” The vision was to realize this. The vision of “health again” becomes a reality. Ahead of Trump's historic election […]
Vaccine stocks fall after Trump taps skeptic RFK Jr.
Pharmaceutical stocks continued to fall on Friday after President-elect Donald Trump's controversial nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Shares of coronavirus vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer fell early Friday morning, dropping 4% and 4.3%, respectively. Shares of Novavax, another US-based biotechnology company, fell 2.6%. […]
Pence says he opposes RFK Jr.’s nomination for HHS secretary because of his stance on abortion
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday explicitly opposed the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “The Trump-Pence administration has been unapologetically pro-life during its four years in office. Hundreds of decisions are made every day at HHS that will lead our country toward or […]
Drug markets uneasy about RFK Jr.
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Pharma stocks sink on RFK Jr. pick
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Five of RFK Jr.'s most controversial views
President-elect Trump's decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will put some of the former independent presidential candidate's most controversial views under intense scrutiny. Kennedy would need 50 votes in the Senate to be confirmed, which is not impossible, but his past statements could cause […]
INESA PONOMARIOVAITE: RFK To The Rescue — It’s Time To Make America Healthy
Americans have been working on this A growing health crisis Over the past 10 years. We have faced crises of people getting sick for the past 30 years, but this is nothing compared to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we know who is responsible for America's health and who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, we […]
Drugmaker shares drop after RFK Jr. tapped to lead HHS
Shares of several pharmaceutical and biotech companies have fallen since President-elect Trump announced Thursday that he had selected vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). . The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF tracks the biotech sector. fell As of noon, it was 3.7%. Shares of major pharmaceutical […]
Jake Tapper rips RFK Jr. after health secretary nomination
CNN's Jake Tapper gave a frank assessment of President-elect Donald Trump's selection of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next Secretary of Health, and when the news broke, he remained expressionless on air. “Well, America, I hope you like measles.” Tapper, a longtime critic of Kennedy, spoke on Thursday's show about President Trump's […]