US EditionThe Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands
- On July 1, the HHS and USDA canceled all contracts and subscriptions to Springer Nature, which labeled Nature as 'junk science' to protect taxpayers.
- Kennedy’s critique of Nature and germ-theory denial prompted the US health department to cancel all contracts with Springer Nature amid accusations of 'junk science' and controversy over COVID-19 origins.
- USDA terminated nearly $2.5 million in contracts, including a $2.3 million subscription, under legal provisions allowing termination in the government’s interest.
- Federal scientists face loss of access to top journals, as Kennedy warns NIH researchers could be barred and in-house publications created.
- Recent actions by RFK Jr.'s health department, including canceling all contracts with Nature publisher and removing the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, signal a broader politicization of health policy that threatens trust in evidence-based medicine.
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The Braidwood decision and HHS
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. In Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the procedure used to appoint members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to their positions. In doing so, the court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health insurers cover a rang…
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The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands
On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy.
Susan G. Komen® Applauds US Supreme Court Decision Protecting No-Cost Access to Lifesaving Breast Care
Susan G. Komen® commended the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a lower court decision that threatened access to preventive breast care services, including screening mammography, risk-reducing medications for high-risk individuals, and genetic counseling and testing for some with a personal or family history of breast or related cancers. [Susna G. Komen] Press Release
RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions - WorldNL Magazine
The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are "corrupt." "We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they’re all corrupt," he said. He accused the journals collectively of being a "vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda." He went on to say that "unless these journals…
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