RFK Jr.’s latest ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration is imploring the nation s community strength agencies to prioritize investigations of vaccine injuries prescription drug use and the cause of autism in a new Make America Healthy Again account focused on children distributed on Tuesday The -page review overseen by Strength and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr promises to put an end to childhood diseases in the U S by refocusing the nation s community medical agencies on the topics that those in Kennedy s wide-ranging and politically diverse MAHA movement have demanded the regime prioritize His renewed push to investigate vaccine injuries could deepen a clash between Kennedy and the society medical agencies he oversees which have been upended by mass layoffs and disagreements over his controversial policies Kennedy is releasing his blueprint for healthy children after weeks of tumult prompted by disagreements over vaccine procedures at the Centers for Ailment Control and Prevention that resulted in the director s firing and other top leaders walking out on the job Just last week senators grilled Kennedy over his anti-vaccine agenda and his leadership of the residents fitness agencies Kennedy is also expected to release a analysis that he says will lay out the causes of autism a complex developmental disorder Those who have spent decades researching autism have determined no single cause Besides genetics scientists have identified various realizable factors including the age of a child s father the mother s weight and whether she had diabetes or was exposed to certain chemicals Kennedy s latest review published on Tuesday calls for the administration to investigate vaccine injuries and develop a framework to ensure America has the best childhood vaccine schedule that is simultaneously addressing vaccine injuries Related Articles Missouri Republicans advance Trump-backed plan to redraw US House districts He built Michigan s Medicaid work requirement system Now he s warning other states More states guarantee students the right to school-day religious instruction off campus AP finds major tragedy declarations are taking longer under Trump Michigan judge tosses episode against accused fake electors for President Donald Trump in An earlier version of the account was first leaked and publicized in August Slight changes have been made to the final draft which was developed by a MAHA commission that included Kennedy and other members of the president s Cabinet Despite pledging radical transparency the commission never held a citizens meeting ahead of the statement s release Among the differences in the final version of the review disclosed on Tuesday is a call for the National Institutes of Vitality to use personal medicinal records and medical insurance suggests details to investigate the cause of diseases and disorders including autism The NIH will link multiple datasets such as alleges information electronic wellbeing records and wearables input into a single integrated dataset for researchers studying the causes of and progressing treatments for the chronic malady situation the statement says Kennedy has vowed for months that he would unveil the cause of autism a complex developmental disorder that impacts the brain by September He has promised to execute a massive research effort to identify the disorder s causes but has stayed mum on details regarding who is conducting that research and when it will be published The MAHA assessment addressed a number of other issues including ultraprocessed food consumption water quality fluoride and the use of prescription drugs in children Agencies including the soundness department and the Department of Justice should increase enforcement and oversight of prescription drug ads especially those published by social media influencers and telehealth companies the overview says The review tasks the NIH which is facing a cut to its budget under the Trump administration with undertaking the greater part of the studies on Americans robustness