WASHINGTON — To earn the vote he needed to become the nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special ...

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to responding to infectious-disease outbreaks.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades as an outsider railing against federal health authorities. His Make America Healthy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s health secretary Thursday, but what exactly does the Health and Human Services Department do and what is his role?

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 ...

Senator Ron Wyden criticised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for HHS Secretary, citing his history of spreading anti-vaccine misinformation, including linking vaccines to autism. Wyden expressed ...

HHS has launched investigations into four medical schools following alleged antisemitic incidents during their graduation ceremonies last year, the agency said in a statement Feb. 3. Civil rights ...

Despite intense debate about the viability of Kennedy’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), his effort moved forward after senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA ...

Sen. Ron Wyden, the finance panel’s ranking Democrat, on Tuesday called Kennedy “singularly unfit to serve as HHS secretary” and a “grave threat to the health of the American people.” As health ...

We have chronic problems, epidemics of obesity, diabetes, chronic disease ... Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday that he will vote for the HHS secretary, citing his belief that Kennedy will ...

assess the person’s ability to independently manage his or her diabetes at home; assess the person’s ability to independently manage his or her diabetes in the workplace; prepare a person to make ...

Lawmakers pressed RFK Jr, a longtime vaccine critic, on his qualifications to oversee HHS, a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, funding for medical research, public health ...