On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's ...

RFK Jr. claimed in a Senate hearing that the childhood lead program was still being funded. But staffers remain on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that drug overdose deaths have decline by nearly 27% in 2024. The ...

Democratic Sen. U.S. Tammy Baldwin says she'll continue targeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services ...

The Milwaukee Health Department said there is no team from HHS or the CDC in Milwaukee responding to the lead contamination ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate committee there was a federal “team” in Milwaukee from the CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. The ...

Milwaukee's health department said Friday U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "continues to misstate the facts" about an ongoing lead crisis in several of the city's public ...

Before U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even said a word during Tuesday's hearing, vice ...

For many months now, the city of Milwaukee has been grappling with a lead poisoning crisis that has forced at least four schools to temporarily close and dozens more to undergo rigorous inspections.

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