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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has pledged to conduct transparent and quick studies to determine the cause of Autism ...

Getting a diagnosis of autism or special needs for your child will break your world. It will break your expectations. It will drive you into the ground. You will not sleep. You will not eat. You will ...

The changes to FERN are a direct result of staffing cuts at the HHS, which oversees agencies like the FDA and CDC. Kennedy is ...

According to Reuters, the FDA is suspending a quality control program, for food testing labs. Here are the steps you should take to protect yourself.

When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety ...

Four health system CEOs traveled to Washington, D.C., April 17 to meet with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for an open dialogue on healthcare and research funding, digital transformation, ...

Kennedy, Hotez says, made a “false statement” in claiming that the scientific community denies that there are any ...

The firefighter health program was researching firefighters’ chemical exposures in electric vehicle fires — a first step to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to slash 10,000 employees in a major restructuring of the whole department, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the agency is planning to study what causes autism and release results in September.