WASHINGTON—Soon after taking over as Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. marked a small victory for his food agenda, congratulating burger chain Steak ’n Shake “for being the first national fast-food chain to begin the transition away from seed oils.”

"We've shown we could eliminate this disease." In his first public comments on the measles outbreak hitting West Texas and New Mexico, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic whose first steps in combatting ...

Some health policy experts say Kennedy’s early moves as HHS Secretary are concerning and suggest that he could undermine immunizations in less direct ways.

New Mexico’s congressional delegation is urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rehire fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees and launch a national cam

Measles cases have risen to nearly 200 in Texas as New Mexico also records more than two dozen cases. NBC News' Erika Edwards reports on how Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but described vaccination as a personal choice.

Known for his anti-vaccination stance, the new US Secretary of Health is facing his first challenge: Curbing the mainly Texas-based measles epidemic which has been encouraged by low vaccination coverage.

There are now two confirmed deaths in a measles outbreak that has spread from West Texas across the border into New Mexico. And infectious disease doctors are concerned RFK Jr's response is missing the mark.