Overview: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy, who faced criticism for his ...

HHS secretary RFK Jr. said that he would “shut the revolving door to reestablish public trust” in the department.

Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left ...

Kennedy’s first week at HHS included dismissing the workforce, vaccine advisers and some longtime health priorities.

From COVID-19 conspiracy theories to confusion on the facts about Medicare and Medicaid to refusing to say that vaccines aren ...

In Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first interview as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he made multiple ...

ACIP holds full-committee public meetings at least three times a year to review evidence on vaccines and vote on new ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told agency employees that a commission formed by President Donald ...

The wealth of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has swelled in part from for-profit health care ...

The House budget includes cutting $880 billion from programs under the House Energy and Commerce Committee's jurisdiction, ...

Kennedy tried to hold out an olive branch to the researchers during his introductory remarks and pledged transparency.

The NIH cuts were part of a wave of firings affecting roughly 3,600 probationary employees at HHS, including the Centers for ...