WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday named eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential panel of experts who assess the evidence behind a wide array of preventive medical services.
Five of them are medical specialists in fields such as gastroenterology and oncology. That’s a major departure from the past, when the panel was made up of generalist clinicians. Another is a finance professor who has expertise in health insurance.
