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Kennedy will also be reconvening his department's Community Preventive Services Task Force to make a new recommendation on community water fluoridization.

Life expectancy only increased by roughly one year between 2021 and 2022. That's not enough to make up for the 2.4-year drop from 2019 to 2021 due to COVID-19.

Between 1993 and 2022, there were 864 cases of hantavirus disease in the United States. About 38% of severe infections lead to death, according to the CDC.

Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) advanced key points of the Make America Healthy Again agenda, including banning fluoride in water and carcinogenic food dyes from school lunches.

Kennedy traveled to Gaines County, Texas, on Sunday to attend the funeral of an 8-year-old girl who died from measles.

An unvaccinated school-age child died of measles in February in Lubbock -- the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade.

The Trump administration believes finalizing such a proposal "is not appropriate at this time."

Idaho is one of a handful of states that has passed or is considering legislation to deregulate the sale of ivermectin.

HHS announced plans to lay off around 10,000 employees in administrative roles due to a massive restructuring estimated to save $1.8 billion annually.

The celebrity surgeon will oversee the largest health insurance provider in the country, covering 160 million people under Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare.