The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing skepticism of them within his party.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, concluded Thursday's ...

That almost messianic obsession — which arrogantly defies the weight of decades of science supporting the benefits of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s alternating views on vaccines, reproductive rights and public health issues were a central focus at ...

Any NYT reader looking at the buzzy front page headline below would immediately think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a madman. Can he really be an advocate for repealing the polio vaccine, a disease ...

In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 contracted the disease, many of which suffer long-term damage as a result. In ...

Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is back on Capitol Hill on Thursday facing a second Senate panel in as many days as he vies for ...

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

Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their ...

Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate ...

"Influential people are once again twisting the truth about vaccines for their own gain," writes Eleanor Menzin.