Vaccines are the best defense against many infections, health-care experts said, and they encouraged people to stay up to ...

To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would not change the ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told agency employees that a commission formed by President Donald ...

Kennedy's statements have raised concerns about his childhood vaccine commitment to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.

A bill that would allow religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccines filtered through the West Virginia ...

A new presidential commission will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule as a potential cause of the country’s chronic disease epidemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he plans to investigate whether childhood vaccinations and anti-depression medications are among “possible factors” in chronic diseases.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering changes to the list of recommended vaccines for ...

This confidence extends not just to the M.M.R. vaccine. Some 92 percent of American children received the polio vaccine by age 2, and more than 90 percent were vaccinated against hepatitis B.

A reader questions political leaders’ motives in undermining the vaccination system that has protected children.

While about 70% of Americans said routine childhood vaccines were “very safe,” according to a 2024 analysis of polling from the National Institutes of Health, just 35% to 42% consider the ...