Advisory Board March 6, 2025

President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave his first speech of his second term before a joint session of Congress, discussing several topics but only briefly mentioning healthcare, in today’s roundup of the news in healthcare politics.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. speaks about measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged people to get vaccinated against measles in an op-ed written for Fox News Digital amid a growing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico. In the op-ed, Kennedy noted that before the introduction of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine in the 1960s, “virtually every child in the United States contracted measles,” adding that “on average there were 530,217 confirmed cases and 440 deaths”...

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