Topic: Centers for Disease and Control

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. is strangling public health

Heather Digby Parton
(AP)

Geography is link to life expectancy

Jessica Young - The Conversation
Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Opioid overdoses reach record high

Nicole Karlis