After voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor and Republican of Louisiana ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. managed to clear the lowest bar imaginable when he acknowledged in a Fox News op-ed over the weekend ...

Marty Makary, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Food and Drug Administration, said he’s ready to carry out the ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health answered sharp questions in a confirmation hearing ...

I do blame him and others like him who, for the past 20 years, have been spreading lies about vaccines," said Rep. Kim ...

The Stanford researcher did not explicitly state he would reinstate all levels of funding to the NIH, and appeared to swing back and forth on investigating vaccines’ link to autism.

Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy and economics at Stanford University who rose to prominence as a skeptic of ...

President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced questions from senators Wednesday on his plans for vaccine research, ideas for pushing down drug prices, and response ...

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The Stanford health economist selected to lead the NIH has been criticized for his opposition to lockdowns during the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described the outbreak in West Texas last week as a “top priority.” But he has not explicitly ...

About 1,000 NIH employees were terminated in February amid mass layoffs across the Health and Human Services Department.