More than 75 Nobel laureates signed a letter asking the U.S. Senate not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human ...

Kennedy Jr., will investigate for any potential links between childhood vaccines and autism, he told “Meet the Press” host ...

CDC director nominee Weldon, a vaccine-skeptic, has raised questions about the safety of measles, mumps, rubella and HPV ...

President-elect Donald Trump picked Farmingdale High School graduate Dr. Dave Weldon to oversee the Centers for Disease ...

He's a threat to public health, and we have to push Democrats to come out in force against nominees like this.

Donald Trump's health team picks include a retired congressman, a surgeon and a former talk-show host. All could play pivotal ...

President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he ...

On Tuesday night, Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, tapping an opponent of ...

Starting in the early 2000s, Weldon had a prominent part in a debate about whether there was a relationship between a vaccine preservative called thimerosal and autism. He was a founding member of the ...

It didn't get beyond committees. He also pushed a false claim that thimerosal, a preservative used in vaccines, is linked to autism, and advocated for limits on abortion. If confirmed by the ...

As President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the CDC, Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida and a physician, is positioned as an important anti-vaccine ally for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.