Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems.The 16-year-old’s bedroom is full of notebooks featuring her prose. Sometimes, she quietly recites poetry to get through an outburst of anger.

Michigan's top health official questions Kennedy's research timeline while autism advocates criticize his characterization of the condition as an "epidemic."

Texas is poised to lead the country in an initiative to inform denizens of what’s in their food. Food industry experts say it’s going too far.

The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government's widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and organizations have lost funding elsewhere.

For children, yes, the CDC’s “shared decision-making” guidance preserves the status quo in which Medicaid and U.S. health-insurance companies are legally required to pay for the COVID vaccines. That also means the vaccines will remain available to low-income kids through the federal Vaccines for Children program.

During his remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Ron Wyden sounded off on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his past statements.

The Make America Healthy Again movement’s new film “Toxic Nation” says ultraprocessed foods, seed oils, pesticides and fluoride are making us sick. Here’s what research shows.

Now, the gravelly voiced political scion wants to bless us with flightless birds that are quite possibly infected with a deadly virus. The birds in question are about 400 ostriches that are currently living on a farm in Canada’s western British Columbia province.