If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.

Biotech stocks will need to brace for political "games" Wednesday as the Senate meets to potentially confirm RFK Jr. to lead HHS.

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, warned senators of her “predator” cousin ahead of his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday. In a letter first reported by The Washington Post, she wrote that his victims included family members and parents of sick children.

Bipartisan critics of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are sharpening their arguments that he is unfit to serve as the nation’s top health official, embracing the extra time they have been given while Kennedy waits for his confirmation hearings to be scheduled.

President Donald Trump's controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will testify in two Senate hearings starting Wednesday.

Advocates worry that as HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undermine years of work to unlink autism and vaccines and divert precious research dollars to a discredited theory.

The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy etched a damning sketch of her cousin, Trump’s nominee to be health secretary.

In a scathing letter Tuesday, Caroline Kennedy warned senators about her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a "predator."

Kennedy's niece, a NYC physician, shares private emails, says public needs to see what she calls her uncle’s misguided views and conspiracy theories.

Caroline Kennedy urged senators to oppose the nomination of her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose antipathy toward vaccines has raised alarms among public health experts, faces hearings that could determine whether he becomes the nation’s health secretary. Sheryl Gay Stolberg,

"He put baby chickens and mice in the blender," she says of her cousin, chosen by President Trump to head HHS.