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The Department of Health and Human Services released a 400-page report today titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria." The report only addresses treatment for those 18 and under and appears to follow the UK's Cass Review in recommending more therapy for children and less use of medical intervention, such as puberty blockers and hormones.The 409-page Health and Human Services report questions standards for the treatment of transgender youth issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is likely to be used to bolster the government’s abrupt shift in how to care for a subset of the population that...

A virologist who supports gain-of-function research and believes COVID-19 evolved naturally is the new acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency Dr. Anthony Fauci led for 38 years. Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., a 19-year veteran of NIAID and chief of the institute’s Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, replaced Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was placed on leave last month by the Trump administration. Citing an email from Dr. Matthew Memoli, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Science reported that Taubenberger’s first day as acting director was April 25. Taubenberger will head...

HOLY SHIT! RFK Jr. just said point blank that (1) the Dept. of HHS under the Biden Regime collaborated in child trafficking, both for sex and for slavery, and (2) there are 300,000 missing children that they are desperately trying to find. ARFK Jr. says HHS was a “collaborator in child trafficking”, and that he has ended this and now they are aggressively trying to find these “300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration”. You thought Russiagate and Covid were bad? absolutely stunning and truly crimes against humanity!

“KENNEDY: We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that.”

@Patri0tContr0l WTF did RFK Jr just say? “During the Biden Administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that, and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden Administration.” It’s worse than anyone can imagine.

PepsiCo Inc. has become the first major food company to announce that it will remove artificial ingredients from its products to align with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crackdown. PepsiCo’s chairman and CEO, Ramon Laguarta, announced the change in a conference call. Laguarta said the company will remove artificial ingredients and has already begun doing so. “We’ve been leading the transformation of the industry now for a long time on sodium reduction, sugar reduction, and better fats,” Laguarta said. “Sixty percent-plus of our (portfolio) today doesn’t have any artificial colors,” he said — and the...

A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey showed a significant increase in the prevalence of autism, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for a look at environmental factors that could be causing the neurological disorder.Data from the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Tuesday shows that the prevalence of autism in the U.S. increased from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31. The data collected in 2022 from 16 sites in the U.S. came from surveys of 8-year-old children born in...

You need to watch every second of this. It's going to BLOW YOUR MIND.

President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, announced new contract terminations on Tuesday, saving American taxpayers $2.6 billion in wasteful spending. The agency highlighted presumably the most outrageous expenses, which total over $350,000 for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “plant maintenance” and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) social media programs. Similarly, DOGE recently revealed that minor routine website maintenance for the VA cost $380,000 PER MONTH. “That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week,” the department said. ... Contract...

A new letter from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., puts federal health agencies on notice that he plans to subpoena unredacted records withheld by the Biden administration on potential adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. “It appears that even in the waning days of the Biden administration, your agencies will remain defiant in providing the public with complete information about the COVID-19 vaccines,” writes Johnson, incoming chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Select Subcommittee on Investigations, in the Dec. 5 letter shared with The Daily Signal. “If it becomes necessary to subpoena these and other requested records in the next Congress when...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a televised presidential cabinet meeting Thursday that his agency will investigate and identify the cause of rising autism rates in the U.S. by September, though scientists have said a large part of the jump in rates are linked to improvements in autism awareness and diagnoses. Kennedy said the Health and Human Services Department has started a “massive testing and research effort” involving “hundreds of scientists from around the world” that will allow the government to know by September the cause behind the jump in autism rates, adding “we’ll be...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: HHS RFK Jr announces by September we will know EXACTLY what caused the EXTREME Autism Epidemic in the US. 12:50 PM · Apr 10, 2025

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on the future of vaccines: "I'm not going to take people's vaccines away from them. What I'm going to do is make sure that we have good science so people can make an informed choice." 8:27 AM · Apr 9, 2025

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump announces MASSIVE tariffs are coming VERY shortly on pharmaceuticals. THIS is what I voted for: "We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals." From Aaron Rupar 8:00 PM · Apr 8, 2025

Reports of over-prescribing and excess drug spending make regulation necessaryDrug commercials have become commonplace in the U.S. The average American watches more than nine drug advertisements a day, or more than 16 hours a yearopens in a new tab or window. Only two countries in the world, the U.S. and New Zealandopens in a new tab or window, permit direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription medications. Since the practice became routine in the 1990s, concerns have been voiced about how such marketing creates unhelpful and even harmful pressures on patients, doctors, and communities. And while those concerns are not new, recent reports...

Mass layoffs and a sweeping restructuring at the Department of Health and Human Services could disrupt programs that deliver support for Holocaust survivors and kosher meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities. ..... Snip..... Jewish social services agencies throughout the country deliver kosher offerings to peoples’ homes as part of the Meal on Wheels program. Holocaust survivors also receive other assistance from the ACL through a special program administered by the Jewish Federations of North America. An estimated 40,000 Holocaust survivors live in the United States today JFNA, which has been fielding calls and emails about the federal cuts...

A federal judge will temporarily block President Donald Trump’s administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, appointed by Trump in 2019 but first nominated by former President Barack Obama, in Rhode Island said Thursday that she plans to grant the court order sought by 23 states and the District of Columbia.“They make a case, a strong case, for the fact that they will succeed on the merits, so I’m going to grant the temporary restraining order,” said McElroy, who plans to issue a written...

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Thursday that stops the Trump administration from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health funding from state and local health departments. Judge Mary McElroy of the federal district court in Rhode Island granted a 14-day restraining order to a group of 23 states and the District of Columbia that filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this week. “The likelihood of success on the merits is extremely strong,” McElroy said at the conclusion of the brief hearing, noting that “the record is voluminous …...

O’Keefe Media Group caught a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official coaching researchers how to evade DOGE and secure funding.James Welch, a National Institutes of Health genetic counselor told an undercover OMG journalist how helps principal investigators at the NIH change “race” to “ancestry” in clinical trials to evade DOGE and secure funding.“I had to go look at, like, what was leaked as far as the banned words, that DOGE is just like, control F searching for so I was trying to help [NIH investigator] suggest wording. I had suggested, like, ‘a history of ancestry’ instead of ‘race,’ James Welch...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services in February, he promised “radical transparency” and declared that “both science and democracy flourish from the free and unimpeded flow of information.” But when the Trump administration laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday, the targets included the very people who communicated the health department’s work to Americans....