Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand sent a letter Monday to Kennedy reminding him that in a ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vaccine critic who has pledged to tackle chronic disease, was named U.S. Health Secretary on Thursday ...

Kennedy's statements have raised concerns about his childhood vaccine commitment to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert Kennedy, Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

As health secretary, Kennedy will oversee $1.7 trillion in spending on vaccines, food safety, and health insurance programs.

The announcement on Tuesday raises questions about the promise he made during his confirmation hearings to Republican Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., laying out his early health agenda, said he would examine childhood vaccines, psychiatric drugs and other “formerly taboo” topics in investigating the causes of chronic disease.

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...

The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, placing a member of the storied Democratic family in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and giving ...

Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy faced opposition from the left for his decades of espousing conspiracy theories about vaccines and from the right ...

Washington — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, following weeks of questions surrounding whether the ...