Aria Bendix

Kennedy pointed to evidence-based links between social media use and depression, but shared an unfounded claim that cellphones increase cancer risk.

Public health experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already undermining trust in federal health agencies.

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for the U.S., where TB cases have also been rising.

Texas measles outbreak: Answering questions about vaccines and the disease

Neither vaccines nor the virus prompted an increase in the number of cardiac arrests, contrary to misinformation that has circulated repeatedly.

The health secretary has pledged to address what he sees as overuse of medications to treat depression and anxiety.

Public health experts remain alarmed about Kennedy’s rise from a fringe figure in the alternative health world to one of the most senior and influential positions in U.S. health care.

The Office of Personnel Management distributed a memo, obtained by NBC News, ordering that all federal government references to “gender ideology” be removed by 5 p.m. Friday.

Ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings, his cousin said he is unqualified to be health and human services secretary.

Rates of breast and thyroid cancer for women under 50 rose from 2002 to 2021, while men in the same age group had declining rates of melanoma and prostate cancer.