"I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me,” said the health and human services secretary, whose job is to ...

Press Release - Madagascar has successfully halted the transmission of variant poliovirus type 1, following recommendations ...

The nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faces questions from lawmakers on his response to the measles ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by ...

The researchers developed a simulation model to estimate the impact of declining vaccination rates for measles, rubella, polio, and diphtheria across all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. They ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some ...

By Chris Cameron Reporting from Washington Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and vaccine skeptic who has ... chickenpox or polio. He said people should not rely on him for medical ...

The statement confused experts who said that vaccines aimed at new pathogens have always been tested this way. "That has been ...

WASHINGTON - Skirting a question on an issue ... Food and Drug Administration to suspend or withdraw approval of a polio vaccine for children. Kennedy told senators at the time he was “all ...

It in fact has been typical to test the first available version of a vaccine against a disease in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. For instance, Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, the first ...

(Video: The Washington Post) When pressed by the ... him to a river with his family before he could receive his final polio vaccination. The 66-year-old said that made him the last polio case ...