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Trump administration health policies may target ultra-processed foods

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating junk food, fast food, and ultra-processed food. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. Now attitudes are changing. Kennedy Jr.,

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What To Know About RFK Jr.’s Stances on Key Health Issues and What He Could Do at HHS

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas.

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Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care

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Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County’s two working ambulances. The Greene County Health System, with only three doctors, has no intensive care unit or surgical services. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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What RFK Jr. Might Face in His Nomination Hearings This Week

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an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. For decades , Kennedy has advocated for health-related ideas that are scientifically disproven or controversial. Kennedy Jr.,