Health

While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.”

Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were at much greater risk of later dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause.

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and vapes,… Read More »RFK Jr. Accuses FDA of Drug Industry Influence That Barred Alternative Remedies

Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trump’s election campaign.