In his first Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated claims we have written about before on vaccines and chronic disease.

If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with an annual budget that tops $1.7 trillion, with more than 80,000 employees and 13 divisions.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies for their ongoing studies,

The Trump administration continues its deluge of executive orders that directly affect science and research, just days after being sworn in. Following the executive orders (EOs) taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement and World Health Organization and the scientific nonsense in the EO on trans and non-binary people,

RFK Jr.'s second Senate confirmation hearing focused on vaccines, Medicare, diversity, and science. Key Republicans were reticent to show support.

President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.

What are the current CDC recommendations for vaccines? Here's the list from the government website as of Jan. 30, 2025.

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories,

Experts say it's common to wait until new teams are in place but is a concern if it means "going back to a prior approach of silencing the agencies". View on euronews

Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.

Dr. Dorothy Fink, the acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, has instructed the heads of every federal health agency to stop public communication.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, announced that she will step down Friday, 14 months after she took the position on Nov. 9, 2023.