The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.

Ex-FDA chief Robert Califf about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — “My primary worry is not the FDA, my worry is the American public.”

With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of government health policy.

Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, and his appointment to the country’s top health care policy role raised concerns among health care experts that he would seek to use government to deny people access to vaccines.

Kennedy Jr. has minimized the risk COVID ... died from vaccine-related myocarditis, but some have died from infection-related myocarditis. So, opting out of vaccination because of concerns about ...

The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.

formal approval of their COVID vaccines for children last summer. The conversations gained urgency after President Donald Trump was reelected, and climbed higher when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a ...

In a shift away from next-generation Covid-19 vaccines, the Trump administration is investing $500 million in a vaccine project championed by two scientists who were recently tapped to serve in ...

Chris Murphy got into a heated clash with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after accusing Kennedy of lying about his vaccine views. The post ‘None of That is True!’ Senate Democrat Accuses RFK Jr.