A CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for next week has been postponed. It was the first vaccine meeting since health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in.
The former CDC director calls for more vaccine research, and also warns that a bird flu pandemic “is coming” and could be worse than Covid.
Merck and a woman suing the drugmaker agreed to halt a trial over alleged injuries from the drugmaker's human papillomavirus vaccine in a case with ties to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Trump signed an executive order establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will chair it.
Kennedy's statements have raised concerns about his childhood vaccine commitment to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.
But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human Services agency employees, he vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the new U.S. health secretary, has promised to address an epidemic of chronic illness with President Donald Trump's backing, but his broad agenda from making food healthier to studying vaccines may clash with government spending cuts.
Many public health experts said their fears were realized Thursday when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as health and human services secretary.
While much of President Trump’s Cabinet has chosen Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to swear them in, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn by a different member of the conservative bloc of the court.
Merck and a woman suing the drugmaker agreed to halt a trial over alleged injuries from the drugmaker's human papillomavirus vaccine in a case with ties to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch swears in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as Health and Human Services Secretary as his wife Cheryl Hines holds the Bib
Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican to vote against him.