Restoring Americans’ trust in the feds’ public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks — not ...

Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.

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 ...

Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement can’t help but recall former First Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to improve ...

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