The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed that it plans to study whether vaccines cause autism. The plan comes amid concerning outbreaks of measles, a highly ...

Medical experts and politicians question who will be chosen as the CDC’s next leader amid a surge in measles cases and ...

"Many people feel big Pharma actually feared me more than they feared Bobby because of my credibility and my knowledge of science," says former congressman Dave Weldon, whose CDC nomination was pulled ...

NEW YORK TIMES / FEB. 24 A raging measles outbreak in West Texas has not abated and may have taken root in New Mexico, health officials reported last month. Nurses administer a measles, mumps, rubella ...

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Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor with no experience treating patients, is set to become the director of the NIH.

Misinformation and misconceptions about health are more common than ever. Here, we unpack some persistent myths.

In Florida, the number of kindergartners with mandatory vaccinations decreased to 88% in the 2023-24 school year from 94% in ...

Vaccines are a modern miracle, saving an estimated 154 million lives in the last half-century. Vaccine skepticism is a ...

A month into his role as health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves on vaccines have worried health ...

Kennedy Jr., an ardent vaccine critic who would have been Weldon’s boss as health secretary. Perhaps Weldon’s biggest problem ...

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are ...