RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction

MAHA v. Moderna: The COVID vaccine maker is under attack by RFK Jr.’s department of health

Moderna CEO and cofounder Stéphane Bancel probably never imagined he’d look back on March 2023 as the good old days. Then, he merely had to go before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and take a spitty dressing-down from Senator Bernie Sanders over the price of Moderna’s COVID vaccine. The company was held up as a poster child for “corporate greed.” For a U.S. pharma executive, though, that was more or less business as …

RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will be consolidated under RFK Jr. into a new Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA.

More Americans disapprove than approve of new health chief

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that more Americans disapprove than approve of the job Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. The survey shows that 43% of U.S. adults disapprove of Kennedy’s performance, while 36% approve. Another 21% say they’re not sure.

Tribes Question Kennedy's Promise To Protect Them From Health Cuts

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly pledged to protect and improve health services for Native Americans — whether speaking during his late-January Senate confirmation hearing or an April trip to Arizona, where he met with tribal leaders.  In some ways, he has.  When layoffs were set to hit the Indian Health Service — the federal agency responsible for providing health care to Native Americans and Alaska Nativ…

How RFK Jr. is quickly changing U.S. health agencies

In just a few short months, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun to transform U.S. health policy: shrinking staff at health agencies, restructuring the focus of some regulators and researchers, changing Covid vaccine regulations and reshaping the mission of his department to focus more on alternative medicine.  The directives are all part of the same issue set that drove a slice of health-conscious, left-leaning Am…

RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction

The country’s main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its staff of about 900 this year as part of recent reductions in the federal workforce. President Trump’s budget bill cuts $1 billion from the agency’s operating budget, and its mission is being folded into a new entity shaped by Health Secretary Robert F. …