Kennedy has promised to "Make America Healthy Again" by tackling obesity with nutrition. Here's how he could rattle the ...

If confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy could influence U.S. policy on vaccines, drugs and food safety.

Putting enemies of science in charge of science policy is a formula for mass injury and death, history reminds us.

The COVID pandemic set in motion trends with alcohol use that have persisted. Disruptions in work, school and lifestyle have ...

For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, ...

Trump’s selection is sounding the alarm in the public health community and leaving the biotech and pharmaceutical industries ...

Prominent vaccine skeptic RFK, Jr., is a proven menace to public health. But with a bird flu outbreak looming, he is poised ...

If he is confirmed as H.H.S. secretary, the longtime vaccine critic would be in a position to change the government’s ...

The HHS secretary would wield a dangerous amount of influence over a major sector that is a source of US economic prosperity.

Between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy, the incoming Trump administration has divergent views on regulating the ...

Our country spends nearly twice as much on medical care per person than other wealthy countries but our outcomes are far worse. RFK Jr will need to be tough to bring real change.

Experts have argued Kennedy’s insistence that food reform would cure obesity and chronic disease is an oversimplification ...