To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination ...

Adding work requirements for people on Medicaid was a hot topic of debate during President Donald Trump’s first administration — and it may be again in Trump’s second term. Sen. John Kennedy, a ...

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, said new Louisiana vaccine policy reduces immunization access for parents, patients.

Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy cast the swing vote on advancing President Trump's nomination of RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health.

Cassidy has always been a public servant. Before entering governmental politics, he was a practicing physician in Louisiana. He currently serves as the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and ...

Critics of the Louisiana surgeon general's decision warned that when vaccination rates go down, "you get worse outbreaks." ...

Louisiana Department of Health to end mass vaccine promotion after RFK Jr confirmed - State Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, a ...

Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the ...

The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination.” That's according to a Thursday memo written by ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vaccine critic who has pledged to tackle chronic disease, was named U.S. Health Secretary on Thursday ...

The final vote to confirm Kennedy as HHS secretary comes after weeks of pushback by Democrats, who warned of the widespread ...

Cassidy’s public struggle over Trump's pick for health secretary was the latest chapter in a difficult relationship with his ...