Restoring Americans’ trust in the feds’ public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks — not ...

Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Then Cassidy caved. In the speech he gave on the Senate floor explaining his decision, Cassidy said that he’d vote to confirm ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.

U.S. Sen. and physician Bill Cassidy wagered that he could keep Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Rob Lucero says he wants to fill a leadership vacuum that he says both the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing ...

Kennedy's decision to "retire" the previous panel was widely decried by doctors' groups and public health organizations.

Bill Nye the Science Guy once had to block Health Secretary RFK Jr. after he sent “miles and miles” of anti-vaccination texts ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on ...