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On Wednesday night in Clive, Iowa, a parade of Make America Healthy Again activists and Republican candidates decried Big Agriculture, stressed the rise in chronic disease in America, and called for the Covid-19 vaccine to be removed from the market. 

The Department of Health and Human Services released a policy that will temporarily allow compounding pharmacies to manufacture some peptide products, increasing access to the experimental wellness therapies embraced by many in the Make America Healthy Again movement

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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement rushed into American politics with a promise: Let an unlikely coalition of activists reach the masses, and they will deliver revolutionary gains for the Republican Party

Stem cell entrepreneur Chuck Meeker is bullish about his industry’s prospects with the Food and Drug Administration nowadays

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About half of rural voters identify with Make America Healthy Again, a sprawling political movement championed by the Trump administration, but most said President Donald Trump’s health care policies have not benefited their communities, according to a new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF

The Make America Healthy Again movement has changed, if Tuesday’s MAHA Summit is any indication

A key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of top federal health official Chris Klomp to be deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, clearing the way for him to be confirmed by the full Senate