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RFK Jr. recommends measles vaccines for community immunity while supporting personal choice

Amid the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, Fox News' senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel sat down with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an exclusive interview to discuss contagion concerns.
«The new Health and Human Services secretary told me he is recommending vaccines for the purpose of community immunity,» Siegel told Fox News’ Sandra Smith on «America Reports» following the Tuesday interview.
«He’s working with Texas health officials to provide many more doses of the shot in Texas.»
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At the same time, RFK Jr. continues to believe in personal choice, Siegel added.
During the interview, RFK Jr. noted that most of the people impacted in Texas are part of the Mennonite community, including an unvaccinated girl who tragically died.
While the HHS secretary does recommend vaccines for «highly unvaccinated communities like the Mennonites,» he acknowledged that there’s «a lot of mistrust in vaccines.»
«There a..

What Apple Cider Vinegar Misses When It Comes to the World of Health Influencers

Watching Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar can feel like you’ve ventured into the pit of a misinformation cesspool and are oscillating between horror, disgust, and bewilderment the entire time.

The series tells the story of real-life health influencer Belle Gibson (played by Kaitlyn Dever), the Australian sensation who in 2015 confirmed that she had faked having brain cancer and that she had cured it through alternative medicine in order to achieve celebrity status. The true story is nightmarish, in part because Gibson’s practice of building a massive following based on lies that endangered everyone but herself is far from an anomaly, especially in the influencer space.

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Apple Cider Vinegar frustratingly elides some of the nuances that made Gibson’s ascension possible, including her whiteness, race- and gender-based inequities in medicine that can lead patients to mistrust doctors, and a frightening disinterest in the truth amid our social media age. Th..

Why Do I Keep Having Recurring Dreams?

It’s like watching a rerun while you’re sleeping: Once again, you show up for a class not knowing there’s a test, or lose control of your car while driving, or get chased by a shadowy figure. Recurring dreams have a way of popping up again and again.

“The dreams contain the same content, emotions, or narrative structure,” explains Antonio Zadra, a professor of psychology and senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine at the University of Montreal. Common themes include falling into space, losing teeth, feeling paralyzed in a threatening situation, enduring a natural disaster, or being ripped off or cheated on. But “a significant chunk of recurrent dreams are idiosyncratic,” says Zadra, who co-wrote the book When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep. “And some people have more than one recurrent dream.”

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Here’s what to know about why they keep happening.

How common are recurring dreams?

The vast major..

Measles prevention and protection critical under HHS Secretary RFK Jr.: contributor

Amid the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, along with several cases in other states, doctors are emphasizing the importance of community protection.
Measles is «wildly contagious among unvaccinated individuals,» Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Dr. Marc Siegel previously told Fox News Digital.
Ahead of a Tuesday interview with HHS Secretary RFK Jr., Siegel said he is concerned about the issue of «community protection versus risk benefit.»
«That may include how many vaccines are being offered, who's offering them and how many people are getting them,» he went on.
«I want to understand the work on the ground in terms of contact tracing isolation, intervention and prevention.»
Siegel previously suggested that high exemption rates for childhood vaccines, which are now under 85% compliance, are to blame.
The majority of cases in the current outbreak have occurred in unvaccinated individuals, mostly school-aged children.
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Measles outbreak to be focus of new RFK Jr. interview by Fox News’ Dr. Marc Siegel

Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and Fox News senior medical analyst, will interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday morning on the Fox News Channel.
RFK, who was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services on Feb. 13, leads the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign.
The main focus of the Tuesday interview will be the current measles outbreak, which has caused more than 160 cases in the U.S. — a vast majority of those in Texas — and one death.
«I plan to ask about the coordination of services between the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC and the state of Texas,» Siegel told Fox News Digital.
«That may include how many vaccines are being offered, who's offering them and how many people are getting them,» he went on.
«I want to understand the work on the ground in terms of contact tracing isolation, intervention and prevention.»
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Another likely topic of conversation, acc..

Make America Healthy Again: Timeline of the MAHA movement

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has taken off ever since HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first pitch for a healthier America.
MAHA aims to improve nutrition, eliminate toxins, preserve natural habitats and fight the chronic disease epidemic in this country, according to its website.
Since the slogan's introduction in July 2024, many people — everyone from President Donald Trump to social media influencers nationwide — have embraced the widespread effort to improve public health.
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Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President Trump and host of the new program «My View with Lara Trump» on Fox News, said the MAHA movement is «gaining momentum big time.»
«With RFK Jr. confirmed as our HHS secretary, we're poised to learn so much more than I think we ever knew,» she said during an interview on Monday evening with Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of this article.)
«And I think it's going to encourage so many more people t..

RFK Jr. Acknowledges the Measles Vaccine Amid a Worsening Outbreak

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long cast doubt on the safety of vaccines—particularly the one for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). But in his new opinion piece about the ongoing measles outbreak, published March 2 in Fox News, Kennedy wrote that vaccines “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”

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Kennedy’s acknowledgement of the value of the measles vaccine comes as the outbreak that began in Texas continues to grow. So far, nearly 150 cases and one death—the first U.S. fatality from the disease in more than 10 years—have been confirmed. It’s the largest measles outbreak in the U.S. in decades.

When Kennedy previously discussed the outbreak at a cabinet meeting last week, he did not mention vaccination.

However, in the Fox piece, Kennedy also wrote about th..

Bird flu leads to pet food recalls as experts urge caution

A Washington company has recalled pet food products amid the ongoing bird flu outbreaks.
On March 1, Wild Coast Raw of Olympia, Washington, has recalled its frozen Boneless Free Range Chicken Formula raw pet food for cats, according to a March 1 announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The product could potentially contain the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the statement cautioned. Animals who eat contaminated food can contract the virus.
NEW BIRD FLU STRAIN DETECTED ON POULTRY FARM AS EXPERTS MONITOR MUTATIONS
The recall affects 16 oz. and 24 oz. sizes of the product. Lot numbers are listed on the FDA’s website.
The announcement comes days after the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) warned pet owners that at least two domestic, indoor cats have tested positive for the HPAI strain of bird flu.
«One of the cats was euthanized due to the severity of the illness,» the WSDA stated in the Feb. 26 announcement. «The second cat is being tr..

Woman’s medical drama solved when she gets her man — and far more

Nicole Munda, who was turning 29 in 2001, had never been to a NASCAR race at that point in time.
Then a friend invited her to make the 4½-hour drive from her home in Las Vegas to the Phoenix International Raceway.
At first, she didn't want to, as she shared with the Godwinks team. Then she rationalized that the excitement of cheering people and roaring race cars could — at least for a day — drown out the doom and gloom of her recent disheartening diagnosis from her doctor.
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She’d been told, «If you don’t find a liver donor, Nicole, you may not live past your 30s.»
Young people in their 20s don’t normally require liver transplants. But, as the Mayo Clinic confirmed, she was an exception.
The disease she had been fighting had progressed rapidly. She needed to look for a donor with the same rare blood type, and from a same-sized person — and from someone who was «emotionally connected.»
In other words,..

Dermatologists Have a Dirty Little Secret

Most Americans view soap as essential to bathing as water. The daily grind confronts us with dirt, germs, and sweat, and a soapy shower provides the simple, pleasurable antidote.

Uncontroversial though soap may seem, some people are very troubled by your sudsy lather: dermatologists. “If you talk to most dermatologists, probably none of them use actual soap, except on their hands,” says Dr. Erin Chen, herself a dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Here’s what Chen and four other experts say about avoiding soap, healthier substitutes, and tips to make sure your cleaning rituals aren’t accidentally undermining your skin health.

The many downsides of soap

Soap rubs skin the wrong way for several reasons. It “contains many ingredients that just don’t do well for the skin,” says Dr. Anthony Rossi, a dermatologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Soap combines fats or oils with sodium hydroxide (in the case of soap bars) or potas..