The reshaping of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel has continued, with the apparent barring of reps of medical associations ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally accepted recommendations that would require all vaccine manufacturers to ...

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U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates fell last year, continuing a yearslong decline that started during the pandemic, ...

Prasad’s departure may outline the political limits of medical skepticism in the Republican party, at least when it comes to ...

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The FDA is still on track to meet its user fee targets despite a higher-than-normal vacancy rate among scientific reviewers.

On Friday, Congressional Republicans passed legislation to take back money they’d already appropriated this year, enacting steep cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting. It doesn’t sound like it’s ...

The new data — drawn from the medical records of more than 1.2 million children over a 24-year period — should assuage those concerns, STAT’s Helen Branswell reports.