<p>The Trump Administration's pick to run America's incredibly consequential Health and Human Services Department, Robert F. Jennedy Jr., declared during his contentious first confirmation hearing today that he was "raised at a time when there was no chronic disease epidemic." It's a sweeping claim, and it's worth one very prescient reminder: Kennedy is 71 years old and was born in the year 1954. The worlds of medicine and diagnostics, patient reporting behaviors, and general public awareness of chronic diseases and their symptoms have changed since then. The powerful Kennedy scion repeated versions of this claim throughout his failed presidential campaign; […]</p>