To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule.

The program had been created about 10 years ago to help the CDC remedy embarrassing lab-safety failures. The cuts may not have an immediate impact, but they likely will haunt the nation in the months ...

A federal judge has refused to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs. U.S.

All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years’ figures for both ...

While there have been human cases of bird flu reported, the CDC has not reported any known person-to-person spread of the ...

Will RFK Jr., America's foremost vaccine skeptic, mobilize the shots to stop the worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades?

As of Feb. 1, there have been at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths across the United States related to influenza during the 2024-2025 season, according to the CDC.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said he will make the potential effects of childhood vaccine schedules and ...

President Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency had called for a massive reduction in the federal workforce, ...

The virus is spreading with greater speed among animals, with transmission to humans increasing. But risk to the general ...

Bird flu cases are increasing in the US, with two more hospitalisations reported in Wyoming and Ohio. While no human-to-human ...