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Doctors and public health leaders, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recommend that most people 6 months old and older get the 2025-26 flu vaccine — and it’s still covered ...

If you want to understand why Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has halted $500 million in funding ...

NBC Medical Analyst and pulmonologist Dr. Vin Gupta reacts to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement to cut $500 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doused rumors about his political future by announcing he won’t be seeking the presidency in 2028.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that all National Institutes of Health research on mRNA vaccines will be halted. He is wrong, dead wrong.

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician who made it clear he was not going to vote for him if Kennedy was going to go after ...

In 2008, Madeline “Kara” Neumann, 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no longer ta ...

Showing that his loyalty to his own anti-vax mentality is greater than his loyalty to President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the dangerous quack atop the Department of Health and Human ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, inexplicably advances conspiracy ...

One of the more notable successes of President Donald Trump’s first term was how the administration was able to develop ...

The Nobel Prize-winning technology underpinning COVID-19 vaccines is also fueling a host of biotechs developing treatments ...