Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s health secretary Thursday, but what exactly does the Health and Human Services Department do and what is his role?

Stefanie Spear, an HHS deputy chief of staff, instructed agency staff Tuesday morning to pause external communications, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Spear, who joined HHS ...

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Now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s two confirmation hearings have concluded on Capitol Hill, we have clear evidence that he is unfit to lead our nation’s largest health agency. Throughout the ...

Bhaskar is a research assistant at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law at Harvard Medical School. Kesselheim is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of ...

Kennedy eventually dropped out of the race to endorse Trump, who then nominated him for HHS secretary. Since joining Trump, Kennedy has focused on a "Make America Healthy Again" slogan ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces confirmation hearings this week for Health and Human Services secretary, with questioning from both Republicans and Democrats. Kennedy's anti-vaccine stance and ...

(WASHINGTON)– Donald Trump has promised he’d let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, food and medicine as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. He now faces two separate ...

Following his nomination in November, Pence called on the Senate to reject Kennedy, saying he would be “the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history” if confirmed.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at 200 Independence Ave. SW in Washington, DC. The agency, which has some 90,000 employees, is putting a freeze on most staff communication as of ...

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even probable.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar listens at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file) President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press as Director Robert Redfield, right, looks at the headquarters of the ...