Aria Bendix, Mustafa Fattah and Erika Edwards |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones.
“We’ve devoted all of these dollars to infectious disease and to drug development and very little to chronic disease,” Kennedy said Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Kennedy described himself as uniquely positioned to “end the chronic disease epidemic” in the United States, which he blamed for high health care...
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