Kennedy will make his first appearance as health secretary before Cassidy’s powerful Senate health committee on Wednesday.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Placebo testing has been part of the process since the 1940s. It’s unclear what additional measures would achieve — but it may slow development.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health announced a new initiative called ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has ...

Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the U.S. health secretary and already there have been many signs the longtime critic of vaccines intends to use his extensive powers over regulation, policy ...

Many vaccine experts are concerned that HHS Secretary Robert F ... The fate of the Women’s Health Initiative, a groundbreaking study that for decades has studied women’s health, remains ...

The funds from the US government will enable the ongoing development of the vaccine, including late-stage trials next year, if the results from the early studies prove promising. HHS officials ...

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