For decades, the United States has been among the largest donors of international health assistance, the mainstay for many programmes committed to fighting the most infectious and devastating diseases ...

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted to move forward with Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

It has been just over two weeks since President Trump took office, and there have been significant effects already on public ...

Uganda has begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola following an outbreak that has killed one ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has no training in health care, public health, global health issues, or drug and vaccine safety, writes. He does have lots of opinions, however, and these opinions could shape ...

Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about ...

Trump's HHS nominee was questioned about his dangerous and unfounded assertions regarding public health, including the cause ...

As secretary of the HHS, Kennedy would oversee major health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the ...

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She said domestic production of HIV commodities such as test kits and anti-retroviral drugs was part of measures the ...