Social media posts claimed the health secretary backed a White House plan to end a program that distributes the opioid overdose reversal medication.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.

“RFK Jr. will focus on that at the expense of other things that are very, very, very, very much contributing to the ‘chronic disease epidemic,’” said Dr. Eric Burnett, an internal medicine doctor at an academic medical center in New York and a health communicator on social media.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen on Monday asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to preserve federal funding for an opioid overdose prevention program that distributes naloxone,

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifys before the House Appropriations committee in the morning and the Senate HELP committee hearing in the evening.

The U.S. Secretary of Health's beliefs around opioid use and treatment contradict what I and other experts know to be effective.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agenda has won praise from some whose loved ones have severe complications from autism. But others say his rhetoric fails to accurately portray people on the spectrum and the contributions they make.

In 2023, for the first time, more than half of those who died while experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C.,