Then Cassidy caved. In the speech he gave on the Senate floor explaining his decision, Cassidy said that he’d vote to confirm ...

In a move that's left the healthcare community reeling, Health Secretary RFK Jr. announced a new panel of vaccine advisors ...

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

Artists take on vaccine advisers, medical quackery, and more ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on ...

Multiple new members have voiced anti-vaccine views that are not based in scientific evidence. Their actions could shape the ...

Public health and infectious disease experts said they were surprised and confused about the move, and questioned why the HHS did not offer any reasoning for its decision.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash after firing all 17 members of the CDCs ...

The Department of Health and Human Services sent Congress a document to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to ...