As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces his Senate confirmation hearings to lead the HHS, here's where he stands on health issues including vaccines and food dyes.

The potential secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) has been forced to defend his previous anti-vaccine stances at his senate hearing.

Backed by dozens of ultra-right anti-vaccine zealots in the audience, Kennedy engaged in over three hours of lies, half-truths, and disinformation in his effort to become the top general in Trump’s war on public health.

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

Sen. Raphael Warnock put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the hot seat during RFK Jr.'s first senate committee hearing as President Trump's pick to the lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warnock questioned Kennedy's alleged comments comparing the work of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to that of Nazi death camps.

Watch live as RFK Jr. faces questions from senators in his confirmation hearing as President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to walk back his past anti-vaccine and pro-abortion rights stances in his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday as he fielded questions from both sides of the aisle. The big picture: In his hearing,

As expected, President Trump's nominee to be the next HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., faced a barrage of tough questions from Democratic senators at a hearing Wednesday while facing less combative ones from Republican lawmakers.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will undergo intense scrutiny over his history of controversial and inflammatory comments at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday to become President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary.

The daughter of President John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, has urged lawmakers to reject her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). In a letter to senators,

None of this is to paint the late Robert F. Kennedy as a saint. He was fully capable of playing hardball politics, hesitant about directly challenging Johnson on Vietnam, torn between appealing to traditional politics and a newer coalition.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly ordered its staff to cease all collaboration with the World Health Organization on Monday, marking a dramatic acceleration of President Donald Trump's executive order to withdraw from the global health body.