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Trump Selects RFK Jr. for Health Secretary

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Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead Health and Human Services

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he announced in a social media post. Trump said that Kennedy will "restore" the agencies under HHS "to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research,

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Trump picks vaccine sceptic RFK Jr for health secretary

Donald Trump has picked vaccine sceptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration. Kennedy,

Trump names RFK Jr. as his pick for secretary of health and human services

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed, Kennedy would be in charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

Obesity-related heart disease deaths spike in US

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Health Rounds: Obesity-related heart disease deaths spike in US

Hello Health Rounds Readers! Today we feature a sneak peek at a trio of studies to be presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago, which will run from Nov. 16-18. Spike seen in US heart disease deaths related to obesity Obesity-related deaths among U.

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Death rates linked to obesity-related heart disease are up, especially among men

Researchers analyzed age-adjusted data from 226,267 deaths attributed to obesity-related ischemic heart disease. The data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WON

Becker's Hospital Review · 1d

180% increase in obesity-related heart disease deaths: 8 notes

The study includes public health data of 226,267 ischemic heart disease obesity-related deaths from 1999 to 2020 reported to the CDC's Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database, according to a Nov.

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Trump’s latest controversial Cabinet pick could have a huge impact on Americans’ health and lives

Each of Donald Trump’s most provocative Cabinet picks has been a calculated punch in the mouth to experts, elites and ...

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Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to cruise ship hot tubs, CDC says

Recent outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease have been linked to cruise ship hot tubs, according to CDC reports. Infectious ...

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Opioid overdose deaths drop for 12th straight month, now lowest since 2020

Opioid overdose deaths have now slowed to the lowest levels nationwide since 2020, according to new estimates from the ...

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Measles is debilitating, deadly and making a comeback, WHO and CDC warn

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US ...

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STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall in US

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data. The syphilis epidemic slowed ...

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Overdose deaths decline for second year in a row, down 14% nationwide

Overdose deaths declined for the second year in a row, fanning health experts’ hopes that the opioid crisis could be turning ...

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‘It’s definitely in the community' | CDC lowers age recommendation for pneumonia vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control lowered the age recommendation for people who should get the pneumonia vaccine from 65 to 50.

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Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation's 4th biggest killer

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just ...

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