RFK Jr to encourage Americans to use 'wearable' tech to track their health

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said connected Tuesday that it is his imaginativeness "that each American is wearing a wearable wrong 4 years."

He made the comments regarding devices similar smartwatches, astute rings and fittingness trackers to members of Congress, adding that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is "about to motorboat 1 of the biggest advertizing campaigns successful HHS past to promote Americans to usage wearables."

Kennedy said during a proceeding earlier the House Committee connected Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee connected Health that wearables are a mode "people tin instrumentality power of their ain health."

"They tin see, arsenic you know, what nutrient is doing to their glucose levels, their bosom rates, and a fig of different metrics arsenic they devour it," helium told members of Congress. "And they tin statesman to marque bully judgments astir their diet, astir their carnal activity, astir the mode that they unrecorded their lives."

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Apple Watch SE is seen successful a store successful Krakow, Poland connected April 20, 2024.  (akub Porzycki/NurPhoto)

The wellness caput said helium has had friends who person "utterly changed their lives conscionable from wearing a glucose meter," who person mislaid value portion monitoring their diabetes. 

Shares of continuous glucose-monitoring device makers Abbott and Dexcom were up 3.6% and 10%, respectively, successful day trading, Reuters reported.

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In this photograph illustration, a Diabetes monitoring instrumentality is shown successful London successful February 2025.  (Peter Dazeley)

While helium has been captious of the diabetes cause Ozempic, which is often utilized for weight-loss, helium has expressed enactment for the medicine of specified weight-loss drugs for adults with morbid obesity and diabetes, provided they are accompanied by exercise.

"You cognize the Ozempic is costing $1300 a month, if you tin execute the aforesaid happening with an $80 wearable, it's a batch amended for the American people," Kennedy said, adding, "We're exploring ways of making definite that those costs tin beryllium paid for."

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee connected Health proceeding titled "The FY2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget," successful Rayburn gathering connected Tuesday, June 24, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

J.P. Morgan expert Robbie Marcus commented, "We deliberation it's premature to construe this arsenic a nonstop remark connected whether Medicare and different commercialized payors volition determination towards covering non-intensive Type II diabetes patients oregon different areas of proactive monitoring."

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Kennedy has agelong promoted steadfast eating implicit medicine arsenic a mode to combat obesity, and has been a salient skeptic of vaccine safety.

He added, some successful idiosyncratic and connected X, that the forthcoming wearables run is "a cardinal portion of our ngo to Make America Healthy Again."

Reuters contributed to this report.