RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick — And Medical Experts Have Thoughts
A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles ...
Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, ...
Measles cases hit 370 total in Texas and New Mexico. Kansas has an outbreak. Here’s what to know.
The US has more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, the CDC said last week. Here’s what else you need to know about ...
Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.’s Unproven Measles Treatment
Kennedy made a show of shipping vitamin A to measles-stricken communities. The state’s public-health department didn’t take ...
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Five Reasons Measles Outbreaks Are Worse Than You Think—And Why Vaccination Matters
Both formulations of the so-called MMR vaccine contain weakened live forms of the measles virus. The vaccine does ...
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Vitamin A Should Not Be Used As A Home Remedy For Measles, Doctors Warn
It's basically impossible to overdose on vitamin A by consuming too many carrots, for example, because the body will simply ...
After RFK Jr. recommends vitamin A as a measles treatment, some Texas patients show signs of toxicity
Weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. touted vitamin A as an effective treatment for measles ...
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment ...
Measles outbreak spreads, as does RFK Jr.'s influence
The outbreak centered in Texas has grown to at least three states and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting ...
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RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick — And Medical Experts Have Thoughts
and clarithromycin [an antibiotic], and also cod liver oil, which has high concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin D.” He also promoted the use of vitamin A for measles treatment in a recent Fox ...
Multistate measles outbreak leads to dangerous vitamin A toxicity
As a measles outbreak spreads across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting ...