President Donald Trump has decided to put all federal health agencies on hold until his Department of Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his confirmation hearing. The Washington Post reported that dozens of current staffers have been instructed to halt all external communications,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earned millions from his work as an attorney, including referral fees from cases filed against HHS.
HHS, CDC, FDA, NIH -- to pause all external communications, including weekly scientific reports, health advisories, data updates, and other information. (AP) Meanwhile, the HHS website scrubbed search results for the word "abortion,
Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against disease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to be health secretary, would have oversight power over the vaccine’s maker, Merck, if confirmed.
Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human Services secretary (which has yet to be scheduled ). They should devote most of their time probing how his long history of anti-vaccine advocacy will impact infectious disease control.
Kennedy’s potential ascent as HHS secretary brings promise for backers of alternative-health approaches, while skeptics say those treatments are often unproven.
including the CDC, that he would oversee. House Republicans had mixed reactions to Trump's announcement that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be HHS secretary. New York City Eric Adams ...
The Donald Trump nominee’s dangerous anti-science views could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases right in our state. | Opinion
It's the clearest view yet of RFK Jr.'s investments and potential conflicts of interest as he works to become HHS secretary.
RFK Jr.'s comments about the gene-editing technology raise a question about how he would regulate it as head of HHS.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work as he seeks to become the leader of the nation’s top health agency under President Donald Trump, according to government ethics documents released on Wednesday.