Senate confirms Susan Monarez as CDC director. Here’s what she’s said about vaccines, fluoride and more.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday along party lines, 51 to 47, to confirm Susan Monarez as the new…
Opinion | Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ spending plan will only worsen US economy
Less than six months into his second term, US President Donald Trump and his team have managed to…
Warren presses Hegseth about fluoridation’s impact on readiness
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has sent a letter pressing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for answers about how potentially…
FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove ingestible fluoride products used to protect kids’ teeth
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators announced plans Tuesday to phase out ingestible fluoride supplements sometimes used to…
Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again,”…
RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted | Health
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent time in tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico…
Why water fluoridation, long considered a public health success story, is under scrutiny
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop…
Layoffs begin at US health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in…
Utah bans fluoride in public drinking water
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water,…
Trump will nominate acting CDC director Susan Monarez for the position, White House official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for…
White House pulls Dave Weldon’s nomination to run CDC
Washington — The White House is withdrawing former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon’s nomination to be the director of…
Demonstrators across 50 states look to unify opposition to Trump
ATLANTA (AP) — As Donald Trump prepared Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress, protest groups gathered…