Health
2024
2024-02-15 The Creating Hope Reauthorization Act, intended to encourage development of treatments for rare pediatric diseases, faced expiration without action from the administration.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7384
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4583/titles
https://everylifefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Creating-Hope-Reauthorization-Act_ELF.pdf
2025 January
2025-01-29 During a confirmation hearing, Bernie Sanders questioned RFK about his non-profit Children’s Health Defense selling anti-vax propaganda onesies for infants on their website: “Unvaxxed – Unafraid” and “No Vax - No Problem”.
2025-01-31 The administration removed federal health-web resources related to LGBTQ health, adolescent health, HIV, STDs, tuberculosis, civil-rights research, and youth-health monitoring programs.
2025 February
2025-02-01 Democratic Representative Lori Trahan of Massachusetts reintroduced the Accelerating Kids Access to Care Act to improve Medicaid access for children with cancer
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4758
2025-02-03 Congress passed the bipartisan Give Kids a Chance Act to speed development of pediatric cancer drug combinations.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1699227697408915
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=656096720871687
2025 September
2025-09-03 Florida pushed its vaccine bans on schoolchildren.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/health/florida-vaccine-mandates
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7331a2.htm
2025-09-09 RFK unveiled his “Make Our Children Healthy Again” initiative, with a sweeping overhaul to policies based on his version of “gold-standard” pseudoscience.
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/maha-commission-report-childhood-disease-strategy.html
2025-09-15 Funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium was scheduled to expire after March 2026, with the Trump administration halting $4 million annually in federal support.
https://aacrjournals.org/cdnews/news/2629/Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-Initiative-to-End
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/17/childhood-brain-tumor-research-colorado/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/pediatric-brain-tumor-consortium-disbanding-funding-trump/
https://www.childrensbraintumorproject.org/2025/08/29/nytimes_pbtc/
2025-09-22 Trump claimed without evidence Tylenol was bad for pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol. There’s no downside. Don’t take it. You’ll be uncomfortable. It won’t be as easy, maybe, but don’t take it. If you’re pregnant, don’t take Tylenol”.
https://www.fda.gov/media/188843/download
https://jheor.org/post/3465-trump-claims-no-downside-to-avoiding-tylenol-during-pregnancy-he-s-wrong
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/15/Tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-RFK/
2026 May
2026-05-08 RFK ended a ban on tanning beds for minors.
https://people.com/rfk-jr-hals-proposed-ban-minors-tanning-beds-11969258
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-tanning-beds-teen-access_l_69fbe0f3e4b06e786e3c3760