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Trump’s MAHA Approach Is The Holistic Health Strategy We Need

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February 20, 2025
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Last week, almost immediately after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s swearing-in as secretary of health and human services (HHS), Donald Trump established an interagency commission to follow through on his promise to “Make America Healthy Again.” This holistic approach to solving the country’s chronic disease epidemic is the only way to reverse it.  Carrying the same name as the slogan, the
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5 Things RFK Can Do To Make America Healthy Again

The confirmation of America’s new Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., offers a generational opportunity to reinvigorate the nation’s health before the twin epidemics of obesity and chronic disease become endemic. In our new book, Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How

RFK Jr. Senate hearing, Measles in Texas, Medicare rates

April 8, 2025
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Goats and Soda : NPR

April 4, 2025
The main campus of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Thousands of its employees were among those laid off by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 1. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images As of April
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CMS makes job cuts as RKF Jr. guts HHS

April 4, 2025
An aerial of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services building on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland.  Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has slashed jobs from its minority health office and other divisions, CNBC has learned, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upends
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