US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has undone decades of progress in researching and popularising vaccines. Within ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which can have up to 19 members, was established in 1964 to advise the US ...

Kennedy uses the power of his office to retreat from more than 60 years of evidence-based science and destroy public ...

Our hyperpolarized politics as well as a malfunctioning Congress may end up making Americans much less healthy. The Senate ...

Ten children died during the 2024-25 season, up from zero just five years ago. Experts say the spike comes as vaccination ...

Restoring Americans’ trust in the feds’ public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks — not ...

Measles, once declared eliminated in the U.S., has seen a resurgence, with recent cases linked to travelers passing through U.S. airports.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a bold step to restore public trust by reconstituting the ...

The National Park Service is cutting off access to Cleetwood Cove Trail, the most heavily used trail at Crater Lake National ...

Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.