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Senate grills surgeon general pick over vaccines
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WASHINGTON -- Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump's third surgeon general nominee, was grilled at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about her stance on childhood vaccines, voicing support for immunization as she seeks to serve in an administration that has moved to make sweeping chang…
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Saphier, director of breast imaging at a New Jersey branch of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, would bring an extensive medical and wellness background to the role.
On Wednesday, the Senate committee on health holds a confirmation hearing for three top health officials, including surgeon general. Dr. Nicole Saphier is President Trump’s third attempt to nominate a surgeon general.
Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, is testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in her confirmation hearing. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Nicole Saphier, will likely field questions about her stance on childhood vaccinations — an issue that helped sink the president’s previous pick — during her Senate health committee confirmation on Wednesday.
Dr. Nicole Saphier, whom President Trump tapped to serve as U.S. surgeon general, will testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday morning. Saphier, a media personality, was the third person Trump picked for the role, after his two previous nominees failed …
Saphier, President Donald Trump's third nominee to serve as surgeon general, will face lawmakers at her confirmation hearing Wednesday in the latest attempt to fill the post known as the nation's doctor.
Both the president and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. have made numerous false claims about the vaccines' efficacy and safety
Senators heard from three of President Trump's health nominees on Wednesday, including his third pick to be U.S. surgeon general, with this recent crop seeming to better align with what lawmakers wanted to hear.
WASHINGTON -- Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump's third surgeon general nominee, was grilled at her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday about her stance on childhood vaccines, voicing support for immunization as she seeks to serve in an administration that has moved to make sweeping chang…
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