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FDA’s Latest Move Might Not Be All It’s Chalked Up To Be

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is highlighting the benefits of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.

“The [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)] is initiating the removal of broad black box warnings from hormone replacement therapy products for menopause,” he said Monday.

Hormone replacement treatments are sold in pill, patch, injection, spray and cream form, to name a few. All come with a black box label — the FDA’s highest safety-related warning.

“Women may be under-utilizing approved therapies that can alleviate menopause symptoms and improve women’s health” because of these warning labels, HHS warned in a press statement released Monday.

Menopause refers to a stage in female life history when she no longer gets periods and can no longer get pregnant. The average age of menopause in the United States is 52, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). (Read more from “FDA’s Latest Move Might Not Be All It’s Chalked Up To Be” HERE)

Judge Orders RFK Jr’s HHS to Stop Sharing Medicaid Data With Immigration Officials

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A federal judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to stop providing access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal data, including their home addresses, to immigration officials.

District Judge Vince Chhabria, an Obama appointee, granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security from using Medicaid data obtained from 20 states that filed a lawsuit to stop the data sharing.

The order, handed down Tuesday, blocks HHS from sharing data on Medicaid enrollees in these states with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of targeting migrants for deportation.

“Using CMS data for immigration enforcement threatens to significantly disrupt the operation of Medicaid—a program that Congress has deemed critical for the provision of health coverage to the nation’s most vulnerable residents,” Chhabria wrote.

The judge wrote that while there is nothing “categorically unlawful” about DHS collecting data from other agencies for immigration enforcement purposes, ICE has had a policy against using Medicaid data for that reason for 12 years. (Read more from “Judge Orders RFK Jr’s HHS to Stop Sharing Medicaid Data With Immigration Officials” HERE)

‘Horrifying’: Feds Reveal Dozens of Organ Donors May Not Have Been Dead When ‘Procurement’ Processes Started

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirms it has launched a “major initiative” to reform America’s organ-transplant system after it stunningly revealed that dozens of organ donors may not have been dead when the process to procure their organs was started, and dozens more exhibited “neurological signs incompatible with donation.”

“Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” explained HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves,” he said.

A commentary posted at the Washington Stand on the situation highlighted one case:

“According to a partially redacted, eight-page report dated May 28, 2025, HHS received ‘an allegation of potentially preventable harm to a neurologically injured patient.’ This prompted the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the subdepartment of HHS that oversees the organ donation system, to launch an investigation after HRSA Administrator Thomas Engels assumed his post in February. The New York Times identified that victim as Anthony Thomas Hoover II, then 33 years old, who was hospitalized with a drug overdose in 2021. Hours after a doctor had declared him brain-dead, Hoover awakened to find medical staff preparing to remove his organs. ‘Even though the man cried, pulled his legs to his chest and shook his head, officials still tried to move forward.’ Hospital staff ultimately became ‘uncomfortable with the amount of reflexes’ Hoover showed, and a doctor ultimately refused to remove him from life-support. The man ultimately survived.”

(Read more from “‘Horrifying’: Feds Reveal Dozens of Organ Donors May Not Have Been Dead When ‘Procurement’ Processes Started” HERE)

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HHS Ends Funding for Curriculums Asking Teens to Fantasize About Using Condoms

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is cracking down on the kinds of sexually perverse material being produced for children under its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), putting all recipients of federal grant funding on notice Wednesday, saying, “Federal funds may not be used to indoctrinate America’s children with radical ideologies or other inappropriate material.”

HHS’s notice also brigs the program in line with the Supreme Court’s opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor last week, which acknowledges a parent’s right have advanced notice of content to opt their child out of material if they so choose.

“Program materials are expected reflect the immutable biological reality of sex, not radical gender ideology, and may not promote anti-American ideologies such as discriminatory equity ideology,” the announcement from HHS states. “Programs with such unauthorized content are not eligible for federal funding.”

The TPPP is intended “to reduce teen pregnancy through medically accurate and age-appropriate programming, not to promote harmful ideologies, risky sexual activity for minors, or other content outside the scope of the program,” HHS stated, but as documents obtained by The Federalist, and confirmed as authentic by an HHS official, show, the funding was being used to create curriculums that had children take part in graphic demonstrations of condom use and encouraged the use of pornography. (Read more from “HHS Ends Funding for Curriculums Asking Teens to Fantasize About Using Condoms” HERE)

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RFK Jr. Brings Receipts, Drops Fact Check on Purple-Haired Dem During Hearing

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Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought receipts to correct Democrat Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro on the measles outbreaks around the world.

While questioning whether his agency is cutting funding for “life saving” research conducted by the National Institute of Health (NIH), DeLauro suggested that the U.S. has higher cases of measles than other countries. Kennedy told the Democrat congresswoman that she is “wrong,” pointing to the comparable number of outbreaks in Canada, Mexico and parts of Western Europe.

“The Europe you are referring to is the WHO European region, which has 53 countries in Europe and in Asia, including those with low vaccination rates like Romania that has never eliminated measles. If you compare us to Western European countries that we often compare ourselves to like Great Britain, they have seen no measles deaths this year,” DeLauro said.

“Let me address your issue first, because I want to correct you,” Kennedy said. “We have about 1,100 measles cases in this country. The growth rate last year was 15 additional, so we have plateaued. Mexico has roughly the same number, but one-third of our population and they got 300 extra cases last week. Canada has more measles, 1,500, they have one-eighth of our population. Western Europe has about 6,000 which is ten times the number that we have. You are wrong about what you said earlier.”

(Read more from “RFK Jr. Brings Receipts, Drops Fact Check on Purple-Haired Dem During Hearing” HERE)

HHS Report Confirms No Evidence To Support Castrating And Mutilating Gender Confused Kids

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Acomprehensive Department of Health and Human Services review published on Thursday found that there was never any evidence to support the radical gender ideology that was welcomed by healthcare institutions across the nation.

The 409-page report, commissioned in President Donald Trump’s January 28th executive order effectively defunding chemical and surgical mutilation on children, found that the doctors who embraced and advanced radical gender ideology in pediatric patients experiencing gender confusion “lacked sufficient scientific and ethical justification” for those interventions.

“While no clinician or medical association intends to fail their patients — particularly those who are most vulnerable — the preceding chapters demonstrate that this is precisely what has occurred,” the report concluded.

HHS specifically determined that the “gender-identity” method used to rationalize irreversibly damaging kids’ minds and bodies is senseless and should not have gained widespread traction due to a “lack of robust evidence.”

“In short, ‘gender identity’ as it appears in SOC-8 and related literature is ill-defined,” the review suggested. “It may be true that a person’s gender identity is subjective, or undetectable by blood tests or neuroimaging, or otherwise beyond the reach of science, but the more critical point is that no tolerably clear definition of ‘gender identity’ has been offered in the first place. This is a serious problem, because the term figures centrally in the justification for medical intervention.” (Read more from “HHS Report Confirms No Evidence To Support Castrating And Mutilating Gender Confused Kids” HERE)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmation Hearing for HHS Secretary (VIDEO)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee in a confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday, January 29.

RFK Jr. has faced relentless attacks from Democrats and the media since he joined with Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign in an alliance to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).

(Read more from “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmation Hearing for HHS Secretary (VIDEO)” HERE)

Moderna Awarded $590M to Help Accelerate Development of mRNA-Based Bird Flu Vaccine: HHS

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Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, alongside other influenza vaccines, health officials announced Friday.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a press release that the funding will allow the pharmaceutical company to accelerate the development of an H5N1 mRNA influenza vaccine “that is well matched to strains currently circulating in cows and birds and expands the clinical data supporting the use of mRNA vaccines that may be needed if other influenza strains emerge with pandemic potential.”

Moderna said the funding will support the expansion of clinical studies “for up to five additional subtypes of pandemic influenza.”

The U.S. government previously awarded the vaccine manufacturer $176 million in July 2024 to help expedite the development of an mRNA vaccine that could be used for bird flu.

mRNA technology is the same type that was used in the development of some COVID-19 vaccines. While some vaccines use a weakened or inactive virus to stimulate an immune response, mRNA vaccines teach the body how to make proteins that can trigger an immune response and fight off an infection. (Read more from “Moderna Awarded $590M to Help Accelerate Development of mRNA-Based Bird Flu Vaccine: HHS” HERE)

Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services spent six figures paying Drexel University researchers to interview transgender people in India, according to federal records.

Between March 2021 and February 2024, HHS paid out $389,087 to a team of academics at Drexel to perform “quantitative” interviews with 30 transgender men across Delhi and Mumbai, India’s two largest cities. Additionally, the Biden administration provided the researchers with federal funding to distribute online surveys to 300 transgender men living in those cities. The ultimate goals of the publicly-funded research project were to “inform the development and evaluation of an intervention to promote mental health” for transgender people in India and to “impact rapidly evolving transgender health and social policies in India and beyond.”

Specifically, the study investigated the prevalence of mental health conditions, such as anxiety and suicidality, among transgender people in India. It sought to understand what variables were contributing to the occurrence of those conditions. The framework used by the team of Drexel researchers aimed to “put the gender back into transgender health,” according to the grant’s description.

The researchers argued that their work is necessary because the “transgender community is experiencing major socio-legal changes that may affect mental health” in India. One of the policy recommendations made in the final report produced by the team of researchers was to implement public funding for “gender-affirmative healthcare,” including hormone therapy and sex change surgeries.

HHS has positioned itself as a champion of the transgender community under Biden, adopting a new rule in April requiring physicians and healthcare personnel to provide transgender healthcare to patients, including minors. Critics have argued that the rule doesn’t grant sufficient exceptions for healthcare providers who have religious reasons to refuse to practice transgender medical interventions. (Read more from “Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India” HERE)

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Biden HHS Offers Grants for LGBT Youth Counseling to Encourage ‘Family Acceptance’

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is offering up to $1.7 million in grants to groups promoting “acceptance” of LGBT youths through counseling and family via the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The program is meant to promote family acceptance of gay and transgender youth in order to prevent health and behavioral risks that are a particular concern for LGBT youth including suicide, depression, homelessness, drug use and HIV, according to SAMHSA. Grant recipients can receive up to $425,000 for programs that help “reduce rejection” of LGBT youth by their families and caregivers and increase family acceptance by connecting them to counseling services.

“Research has shown that LGBTQI+ youth are at greater risk for poor behavioral health outcomes than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts… Discrimination, peer victimization, and family rejection also contribute to poor mental health amongst this population,” the grant website reads. “Thus, the LGBTQI+ Family Support program aims to reduce rejection and increase family/caregiver acceptance to improve the behavioral health of LGBTQI+ youth.” (Read more from “Biden HHS Offers Grants for LGBT Youth Counseling to Encourage ‘Family Acceptance’” HERE)

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