Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center of Tobacco Products, said Wednesday that reducing the amount of nicotine in tobacco products to the levels proposed in the new rule should significantly reduce their addictive qualities, making it easier for individuals to quit.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a sweeping proposal Wednesday to try to make cigarettes less addictive by lowering the amount of nicotine they contain, an eleventh-hour plan from

Nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that makes them ... but the president's nominee to head Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has talked a lot about the prevalence of preventable chronic illness, including cardiovascular disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's choice for Health and Human Services Secretary, has been distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work. Known for his controversial personal life with three ...

The Senate committees on health and finance have announced the upcoming hearing dates for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services. The Health and Human ...

The Donald Trump nominee’s dangerous anti-science views could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases right in our state. | Opinion

Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human Services secretary (which has been scheduled for Jan. 29 ). They should devote most of their time probing how his long history of anti-vaccine advocacy will impact infectious disease control.

Why Has RFK Jr.’s Nomination Stalled? Update: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a hearing scheduled: Read the latest here. More than 10 of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees faced a public ...

Trump’s health secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has said little about how regulating tobacco ... The FDA has spent years studying the issue and said Wednesday that cutting nicotine would help nearly 13 million current smokers quit cigarettes ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, once pitched the idea to run an experiment on the children of Samoa to see whether vaccines ...

Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has scheduled the first public hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's controversial nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy's hearing before the Senate ...

RFK Jr. is hailing President Trump’s decision to release files on his uncle President John F. Kennedy and his dad, Robert F. Kennedy, as well as civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. The ...