Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted an online conversation on Wednesday with the ...

Contentious hearings to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services this week have ...

Democrats focused on Kennedy's anti-vaccine advocacy. Republicans probed the former Democratic leader on his abortion and ...

Kennedy minimized and denied controversial things he had said in podcasts, conferences or TV interviews, even though the senators quoted him directly ...

The recent Senate confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a striking scene that would confuse a time ...

The issue isn’t only his troubling views but whether a complex federal agency can function effectively under his leadership.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s record of questioning childhood vaccine safety came under fire from a key Republican at the Trump HHS ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s frequent questioning of the safety of childhood vaccinations is persisting as an issue in his confirmation hearings to become the Trump administration's top health official.

Robert F. Kennedy, President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, vigorously defended his views on vaccines, and a key senator still has clear doubts.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wasn’t antivaccine as senators pressed on his past remarks, in the first of two days of ...