Health

Many public health experts said their fears were realized Thursday when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as health and human services secretary. Kennedy, who has a background in environmental...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services was narrowly confirmed by the Senate on Thursday. The final vote was 52-48. Sen. Mitch McConnell,...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as the nation’s next health secretary Thursday, his first order of business will be to investigate America’s problem with chronic illnesses. White...

Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical posters, and about 100 gold records....

America’s health secretaries, almost as a rule, have résumés manicured to a point of frictionlessness. Once in a while one will attract scandal in their tenure; see Tom Price’s reported...

Tamra Judge became emotional while announcing Teddi Mellencamp will take some time away from their podcast as she recovers from brain surgery. Judge, who co-hosts “Two Ts in a Pod”...

Washington — The Senate appears poised to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday, following weeks of questions surrounding whether the...

WASHINGTON — The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of ., a prominent lawyer and vocal vaccine critic, as the nation’s health secretary, controlling $1.7 trillion in...

PHOENIX — Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying...

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian hospital is examining patient records after a nurse claimed online to have killed Israelis, officials said Wednesday, stressing that no evidence of harm to patients...