US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the federal ...

RFK Jr. claimed in a Senate hearing that the childhood lead program was still being funded. But staffers remain on ...

He also said he thought lead poisoning in children was an "extremely ... open a new agency called the Administration for a Healthy America — AHA — to work on chronic diseases, mental health ...

Lead is something that has been poisoning kids in Cleveland for years, and decades later, there is still no end to the issue.

Kennedy and HHS have said that the government plans to continue the work of lead poisoning prevention and surveillance at the new Administration for a Healthy America, rather than the CDC.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions from senators about a lead poisoning crisis in public schools in ...