Health Secretary Kennedy: Panel to examine childhood vaccine schedule
WASHINGTON — To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator:…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as the nation’s health secretary
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent lawyer and vocal vaccine critic, as the nation’s health secretary, controlling $1.7 trillion in…
Was Sen. Cassidy’s deal with RFK Jr. to protect vaccines a mistake?
In the days leading up to a pivotal vote on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become America’s top heath official, all eyes were focused…
Senate panel backs Kennedy’s nomination as health secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the sprawling federal bureaucracy responsible for the healthcare of millions of Americans, received the backing of…
Democratic senators express concern about RFK Jr. investments in vaccine lawsuits
Senate Democrats are demanding additional information on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s financial connection to vaccine-related lawsuits ahead of Tuesday's confirmation vote as Health and Human…
RFK Jr. asked to see science on vaccine safety. Then he dismissed it
WASHINGTON — The man who hopes to be President Trump’s health secretary repeatedly asked to see “data” or “science” showing vaccines are safe — but when an…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refuses to reject falsehood on vaccines, autism
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long record of questioning the safety of childhood vaccinations persisted as a flash point for him Thursday during a confirmation…
Senators question Robert Kennedy Jr. in fiery confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pledged to “make America healthy again” as President Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services, faced aggressive questions…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a ‘predator,’ cousin Caroline warns
WASHINGTON — Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the Senate in a letter Tuesday to reject the…
More evidence that RFK Jr. would be a disastrous health secretary
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the…
Trump: ‘You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine’
President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging news conference on Monday in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on…
Trump nominees should ‘steer clear’ of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear”…
He refused the COVID vaccine. He sued. He exiled himself from baseball
Would he do it all over again?That was the one question I wanted to ask Benny Gallo. He wanted to talk baseball.Baseball is not what…
Outcry after RFK Jr linked to effort to nix US approval for polio vaccine | Donald Trump News
Backlash has been building in the United States following a news report that links one of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members to an effort…
Trump’s first term brought a vaccine. His second could bring retreat
President Trump once celebrated the COVID-19 vaccines released at the end of his first term as “one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” echoing the…
Children Facing Polio: Call For the Right to Vaccination and Health
Pakistan is a country where C.S. Lewis’s saying does not apply. Lewis wrote thatchildren are not a distraction from more important work. It is the…
Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting…
How the next Trump administration could affect health in California
Donald Trump’s return to the White House stands to significantly shape the health of Californians — the foods they eat, the medicines they take, the…
Abcarian: Trump would allow RFK Jr. to infect the body politic with crackpot theories
After all the votes are counted, no matter who wins, the empowering of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Donald Trump will be one of the…
RFK Jr. wants fed health data for his antivaccine clams, Trump transition co-chair says
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can…