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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Schools ‘discourage’ students’ physical activity, healthy eating

  • Brooklyn Draisey

NEWTON — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in Iowa Monday schools discourage students from physical activity and are poisoning them with unhealthy food — issues he said federal and state policies are working to address with the reinstatement of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Kennedy visited the […]

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Kentucky medical schools to integrate more nutrition education through federal initiative

  • McKenna Horsley

Kentucky’s medical schools have agreed to take part in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Service nutrition education program.  According to a Kentucky Senate Republicans’ press release, University of Louisville School of Medicine, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine and Eastern Kentucky University’s proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine have agreed to […]

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RFK Jr. announces decertification of KY organ donor group after numerous problems

  • Lantern staff

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to Lexington on Wednesday to announce his office is firing a Kentucky organ donation organization accused of pursuing critically ill patients for their organs. Kennedy said the decision to decertify the nonprofit was reached after numerous reviews. “Federal reviewers found serious deficiencies in nearly […]