pharmaphorum February 14, 2025
Just hours after the confirmation of Robert F Kennedy Jr as Health and Human Services Secretary, President Trump issued an executive order placing him in charge of a commission on children’s health that will assess ‘threats’ – including “potential over-utilisation of medication.”
The order to create the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission does not mention vaccines – about which Kennedy has expressed controversial views in the past – but does make reference to medicines prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as “selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.”
The document calls for a report within 100 days on the threat posed by these medicines, as well as other factors like some food...