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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News in an exclusive interview. Here are some highlights.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with CBS News' Dr. Jon LaPook and discussed the U.S. measles outbreak and funding cuts by the Trump administration. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder breaks down some of his claims.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook for his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, said he encourages people to get the measles vaccine as an outbreak spreads in the U.S. He also discussed government cuts that affected health programs and staffing.
Kennedy's comments mark the first time he has publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine since becoming HHS secretary.
In an interview with Dr. Jon LaPook, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is encouraging people to get vaccinated against measles. "The federal government's position, my position, is that people should get the measles vaccine," Kennedy Jr. says. See more from the interview, Wednesday on "CBS Mornings" and "CBS Evening News."
The CDC's team of lead poisoning experts remained off the job a week after the sweeping HHS layoffs.
The redeployment comes after another unvaccinated child died in the measles outbreak in Texas.
Kennedy's comment comes as the Environmental Protection Agency says it has now launched a new review of fluoride's health effects.
A second child in Texas has died from measles-related causes, the Texas Health Department confirmed. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended a service for the child. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, is urging people to get the measles vaccine as the outbreak spreads. (Editor's Note: A previous version of this post incorrectly included images of a different hospital from the one in which the child died. It has been updated.)
The additional layoffs at the National Institutes of Health come less than a week after the initial wave of cuts in Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s restructuring.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 4,800-square-foot new home was listed at over $4.5 million.
Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC's lead poisoning program will be reinstated.
CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.
Dr. Robert Califf, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration during the Obama and Biden administrations, says the agency is "finished" as details emerge about layoffs across the Department of Health and Human Services. Califf joins CBS News with more on the news.
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S. health agencies.
More than 130 staff were cut from the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, officials said.
As the number of measles cases continues to rise, a new report claims the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations. The agency now reports 483 confirmed cases across 19 states. ProPublica reporter Patricia Callahan joins "The Daily Report" to discuss.
Employees of the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began getting dismissal notices in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.
As part of the federal government's ongoing efforts to cut spending, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, also known as NIOSH, is laying off at least two-thirds of its staff, under a restructuring order from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. CBS News digital reporter Alex Tin has more.
It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.
Layoffs began at the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. set out to cut about 10,000 full-time jobs. Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House coronavirus response coordinator, joins "America Decides" with her reaction.
The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, calls the HHS cuts to public health grants illegal.
More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released 19 photos from a trove of images obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
The last person to ask Charlie Kirk a question attended the town hall, airing at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had sent over 450 drones and 30 missiles into Ukraine overnight.
The Republican proposal does not include an extension to the expiring Affordable Care Act premium tax credits.
President Trump hosted members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team — famous for defeating the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice" — at a bill-signing.
House Republicans have repeatedly defied Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership amid growing frustration over how he's led the fractious majority.
The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey woman at an Ohio hotel nearly three decades ago.
British police say they have found no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked a bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre.
One day after becoming the oldest winner of a World Cup downhill, Vonn, 41, finished second in a race on Saturday in St. Moritz.