Forbes November 26, 2025
Amy Feldman and Alex Knapp

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines, Abbott’s $21 billion bet on cancer detection, Vivek Ramaswamy’s soaring wealth, and more.

The CDC quietly appointed Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, a promoter of ivermectin for treating COVID-19 and other diseases it’s not approved for and who, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, ordered the state to stop promoting vaccines, as its second-in-command.

News of the appointment, first reported by Inside Medicine, followed the CDC dramatically changing its web page on vaccines last week to promote misinformation about them. Until recently, the agency unequivocally repeated what a multitude of studies have shown–that there’s no evidence to support the fringe claim that vaccines cause autism. Today, the site...

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