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 and other factors.
Commission Led By HHS Secretary Kennedy Will Probe ‘Threats’ To Children, Including Medicines
President Trump's Executive Order creating the commission names mental health and weight-loss drugs as treatments of concern. But it does not mention vaccines, which Kennedy has criticized.
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