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WASHINGTON — President Trump heralded his signature drug discount platform, TrumpRx, as “one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time.” But a month after its launch, few drugs are

BOSTON — How far can health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. go in remaking public health policy in his image? Could he, say, call on Americans to maximize their exposure to measles

AUSTIN, Texas — As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ticked through a list of ways the Trump administration is trying to clean up the nation’s food supply before an appreciative Texas

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LONDON — In a crowded chamber last autumn, Robert Malone, a medical doctor and prominent adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spoke for more than 45 minutes about some of the health

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Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital on his shift. The 3-year-old was struggling

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951