Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. AP

For all our concerns over Robert Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, his Health and Human Services Department is advancing several reforms that are clear wins for medicine.

Kennedy deserves the heat he’s taken for his broad vaccine skepticism, including one subordinate’s move to block a new flu vaccine , seemingly at RFK’s behest — a decision that, happily, was soon reversed.

But he’s also presiding over a host of innovative developments that should foster miracle cures for numerous hard-to-beat diseases.

Take one of the most promising — the FDA’s National Priority Voucher program: It speeds approvals of new drugs and “biological products” meant to address a series of high-priority national health issues, including inadequate treatment outcomes, public-health crises, supply-chain snags and high-cost factors and to hasten the…