Americans deserve a surgeon general with the highest level of expertise and a proven record in public health — not a symbolic figurehead or media influencer. President Trump’s current nominee, Dr.

UPDATE (October 30, 2025, 9:17 a.m. ET): This post has been updated to reflect that the Senate HELP committee has postponed its confirmation hearing with the administration’s surgeon general nominee, ...

Casey Means thinks improving health is a spiritual project.

The president gave HHS Secretary RFK Jr. credit for Dr. Casey Means' nomination as surgeon general when a reporter questioned her lack of medical experience On Wednesday, May 7, President Donald Trump ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R–S.D.) is under White House pressure to speed the process of confirming President Donald Trump's nominees, among them Casey Means, the pick for surgeon general.

The U.S. surgeon general holds a position of immense responsibility — serving as the nation’s leading spokesperson on public health matters and overseeing the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned ...

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms ...

Casey Means left mainstream medicine. She could soon be in a position to change it as the next U.S. surgeon general. Casey Means left mainstream medicine. She could soon be in a position to change it ...

Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths. Despite progress the United States population has made in reducing its cigarette smoking, the measure of that progress has not ...

Jerome Adams, President Trump’s first-term surgeon general, is becoming one of the most prominent voices speaking out against the public health policies and decisions carried out in the president’s ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - Governor Jeff Landry on Monday (Dec. 8) announced Dr. Evelyn Griffin as Louisiana’s next Surgeon General. This, after the former Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham was named ...

The president gave HHS Secretary RFK Jr. credit for Dr. Casey Means' nomination as surgeon general when a reporter questioned her lack of medical experience Andrew Harnik/Getty; Dr. Casey ...