The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.

During the first round of his Senate confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S.

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy said he was "struggling" with Kennedy's nomination for health and human services secretary after repeatedly challenging his views on vaccines.

The nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services wants to disrupt America’s health care system and ask questions the ...

In a make-or-break hearing, Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before a second committee and it revealed Republican doubts about him. Lisa Desjardins reports on where ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. focused a lot of his proposals on diet-related diseases among low-income Americans during his ...

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

Kennedy Jr. about his commitment to aiding rural hospitals during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, it was one of the rare ...

In her letter to senators on the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to become the country’s next health ...

Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan breaks down as she talks about her son with cerebral palsy in the confirmation hearing for Robert Kennedy Jr.

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The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing for Kennedy on January 29, 2025, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing for Kennedy on January 30, 2025.