The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, ...

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement marched through that rift as they rose to power. As secretary of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, abruptly canceled a meeting this week of a federal task force that helps determine which preventive health measures must be covered ...

Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public ...

The Senate health committee chairman said new members of a key advisory panel who were appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he ...

In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of Health and Human Services was probably unlawful.

On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Ms. Redwood’s presentation incorrectly said the only flu vaccine still containing thimerosal had 50 micrograms per dose, double the actual amount.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the agency, Gavi, had “ignored the science” in immunizing children around the world.