WASHINGTON (AP) — In a contentious confirmation hearing to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about Medicare and Medicaid, programs that affect tens of millions of Americans,…

Conservatives who support Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department say he will disrupt the healthcare bureaucracy. They may be right. But he could also disrupt…

In November 2019, when an epidemic of measles was killing children and babies in Samoa, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who in recent days became Donald Trump’s pick to lead the department of Health and…

In November 2019, when an epidemic of measles was killing children and babies in Samoa, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who in recent days became Donald Trump’s pick to lead the department of Health and…

Get ready to welcome back polio, measles and other preventable viruses if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the  next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are few government departments that have as direct a…

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest versions of COVID-19 vaccines were 54% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in adults, according to the first U.S. study to assess how well the shots work. The shots became…

Most Kansas producers have been impacted in one way or another by the drought over the past few years. With El Nino on its way, many producers are weighing the ins and outs of restocking…

MANHATTAN — National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility researcher Lisa Hensley’s career took her from laboratory to laboratory and country to country to study the alphabet soup of ghastly pathogens such as SARs, mpox, MERs and…

Christmas break is a perfect time for youngsters to get vaccinated against influenza and COVID-19, said Becky Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department. “It usually takes about two weeks for the vaccines…

U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward. Everyone 12 and older already was…