Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is officially secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, but his promise to "Make ...

Virtually no previous health secretary nominee in recent memory has gone through such lengths to claim that they would not ...

Reproductive rights advocate slams RFK Jr. appointment,calls Kennedy "an anti-abortion, anti-science conspiracy theorist." ...

Kennedy will oversee some of the federal government’s largest public health agencies, including the NIH, FDA, and the Centers ...

Stefanie Spear, an HHS deputy chief of staff, instructed agency staff Tuesday morning to pause external communications, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Spear, who joined HHS ...

The specter of the COVID-19 pandemic lives with all of us. This week, the memories of the people I loved who lost their lives ...

Clay Higgins (R-La.) taunted Cassidy on social media. “RFK is going to run HHS whether you like it or not. The Senate is ours, and the moment Trump decides he’s had enough of random Senators ...

Bhaskar is a research assistant at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Harvard Medical School. Kesselheim is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of ...

Regarding the Jan. 24 front-page article “Health officials left with ‘chaos’ as HHS goes silent”: I am ... After arriving at NIH in 1987, he helped facilitate one study section focused ...

An NIH spokesperson did not answer questions about study section cancellations, but provided a general statement. “HHS has issued a pause on mass communications and public appearances that are ...

Kennedy eventually dropped out of the race to endorse Trump, who then nominated him for HHS secretary. Since joining Trump, Kennedy has focused on a "Make America Healthy Again" slogan ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces confirmation hearings this week for Health and Human Services secretary, with questioning from both Republicans and Democrats. Kennedy's anti-vaccine stance and ...