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LA County contracted with Planned Parenthood to provide sexual health services to high schoolers, costing $1.4 million for 2024-2025.

Kennedy praised the recent move by the company to ditch cooking its fries in vegetable oil and instead use "100% all-natural beef tallow."

Kennedy said the move is intended to improve consumer safety by increasing transparency in what is in the food people consume, especially ultraprocessed foods.

Roughly 80,000 Department of Health and Human Services workers are eligible for the buyout offer, known as a voluntary separation incentive payment.

People who are vaccinated against measles are generally safe, as two doses provide lifetime protection from the deadly virus.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. applauded the CDC for its "radical transparency."

Dr. Marty Makary, Trump's nominee for FDA Commissioner, breezed through his confirmation hearing despite tough questions from Democrats and Republicans.

Measles was declared eliminated in 2000 in the U.S., but it has been making a comeback in recent months amid rising anti-vaccine sentiment.

The Wyoming legislature overrode Republican Gov. Mark Gordon's veto on a bill requiring an ultrasound prior to prescribing abortion pills for pregnant women.

A judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court blocked and declared the previous 2022 law unconstitutional.