The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has quietly removed a federal public health webpage offering explicit safer-sex and harm reduction guidance for mpox. The deletion confirms fears among LGBTQ+ health experts that the Trump administration is once again illegally scrubbing medically vetted information tied to…
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley says Congress just hasn’t done enough to hurt trans youth’s access to healthcare. Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator wants a ban on any taxpayer funding for “trans-treatment,” even though his colleagues in the Senate have already rejected such a prohibition.
He sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for the Republican House to amend a budget resolution with…
A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday forcefully struck down Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to impose far-reaching restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, ruling the policy unlawful and blocking its enforcement in the states that challenged it.
In a final judgment dated April 18, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the so-called…
An Oregon judge said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. overstepped when he overruled state governments and declared gender-affirming care for minors unsafe nationwide.
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U.S. District Court Judge Mustafa Kasubhai said in a hearing that he will vacate a declaration…
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A key federal vaccine advisory panel has postponed its upcoming meeting after a federal judge blocked what scientists say are dangerous changes to U.S. immunization policy pushed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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A federal judge’s decision to halt the Trump administration’s attempt to reshape childhood vaccine policy drew a pointed response Monday from a former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who warned that politics has already eroded trust in the nation’s public health system. Now, a vaccine panel scheduled to meet on Wednesday has been postponed.
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