As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

The rise of misinformation online has helped fringe health ideas go mainstream and eased RFK Jr.'s path to confirmation as ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, could soon find out if he will be the nation’s top health official. Kennedy, who has drawn sharp criticism ...

The Senate cleared a procedural hurdle Wednesday to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for an alternative type of testing that medical experts say would be unethical.

As health secretary, Kennedy could revive a defunct task force to scrutinize the safety of shots given to babies and kids.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has continued to push the long debunked claim that childhood vaccines cause autism. He has also argued ...

The total shutdown of debate and conversation has eroded trust in science more than most people believed possible.

Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — but often without a full explanation of how we know ...

The hearings also called attention to a passel of health-related conspiracy theories that RFK Jr. has floated in the past, ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used to impress me. In the early 2000s, he did excellent work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms that were fouling creeks and rivers, and we talked about ...

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer, appeared on track to become the nation’s ...