A new type of non-opioid painkiller, aimed at treating short-term pain in adults, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug suzetrigine, known by its brand name Journavx ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines and his nomination for HHS secretary were questioned again in a second Senate hearing.

During the year ending last August, according to preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Of all of the grossly unqualified Cabinet nominees of Donald Trump, the one that is the most dangerous is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump wants to make the secretary of Health & Human Services, which ...

Several of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and key roles in his administration are facing confirmation hearings in the Senate today as the president continues to implement executive actions to ...

T he Senate confirmation hearings for noted conspiracy theorist and dead-animal enthusiast Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have finally ...

Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary said that NIH, FDA and CDC would be integral in his objective to ...

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

In summertime, cows wait under a canopy to be milked at Mark McAfee’s farm in Fresno, California. From his Cessna 210 ...

RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings continue today as he appears before a second Senate committee. Follow STAT's live updates.

Trump prioritizes criminalization over public health in fighting the overdose crisis. Experts say that doesn't work ...

Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be Donald Trump’s health secretary has been dogged by his long record of anti-vaccine and anti-science statements. Even as Republicans embrace him as an iconoclast, ...