In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

Artists take on vaccine advisers, medical quackery, and more ...

On Monday, after Kennedy dismissed all 17 members of the vaccine advisory committee, Cassidy posted on X that he was working ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on ...

Public health and infectious disease experts said they were surprised and confused about the move, and questioned why the HHS did not offer any reasoning for its decision.

The Department of Health and Human Services sent Congress a document to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to ...

UNC professor and behavioral scientist Noel Brewer was among the 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Among the eight people who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who ...

The University of Washington’s Helen Chu, a leading voice in the COVID-19 pandemic, said she’s worried about where the panel ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appearance this week on Fox News was so chockfull of conspiratorial nonsense, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies, a doctor and ...