President Trump’s second choice to serve as surgeon general has pitted some members of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement against allies of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday it is taking a step toward "ending outdated practices" related to children's health and will begin removing ingestible fluoride ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to make huge cuts to health care programs in the coming fiscal year will get its first airing in Congress this week with a marquee witness: HHS Secretary Robert F.

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I don’t know Casey Means at all, but I have met and interviewed the previous two surgeon generals, Vivek Murthy and Jerome Adams, on several occasions. I found both doctors to be well suited to ...

Like the divine intelligence of the universe, the list of reasons that wellness influencer Casey Means should not be surgeon general is vast. For one thing, she never completed her medical ...

A new group, known as the MAHA Institute, is riding a wave of disdain toward big industry to enact change in federal policy. Under the Make America Healthy Again banner, the coalition of leaders ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – In a time when public health is a central concern and personal freedoms are being hotly debated; a new political movement is emerging—one that promises to shake up the status quo.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, a holistic doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next U.S. surgeon general. If confirmed, Means will be the first surgeon general who openly ...

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