Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently harkens back to when his uncle was president as a healthier time for Americans. But American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than ...

In anticipation of the next big one, the U.S. government began bolstering the nation’s pandemic flu defenses during the George W. Bush administration. These strategies were designed by the security ...

Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has spent much of her first months in office focused on opposing one of President Donald ...

The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government’s widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and ...

The health and human services secretary is shrinking staff at health agencies and reshaping the mission of his department to ...

Nearly 100 House Democrats are calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore tens of millions of dollars in federal family planning grants to more than a ...

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Pediatric and OB-GYN health care providers react to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s announcement on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations.

Vaccine skepticism is at an all-time high in the U.S., and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making some drastic moves in the name of reversing that trend. But misinformation and inconsistencies ...

Experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked about "freedom of choice" in health care while limiting choices on some products ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s intervention in COVID-19 vaccine recommendations without input from a key U.S. CDC ...

There was a notable absence last week when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the ...