Key Takeaways
- One of newly-confirmed HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy's first tasks is chairing a presidential commission on reducing chronic disease, primarily in children.
- The commission will evaluate the contribution that the over-use of medicines for mental health, attention deficit and obesity may have on chronic disease.
- Commission work must be completed in 100 days and a strategy with solutions must be done in six months.
Newly-confirmed Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will lead a presidential commission that will assess the “prevalence of and threat” to children posed by prescription drugs...
The Executive Order announced by President Trump 13 February cites selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs as agents of concern, which Kennedy previously
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