MONDAY, March 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- In a policy statement published today in the Federal Register, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has ...

Others develop into cancer, about 37,000 cases a year, according to the CDC. Women in their 20s are the group most likely to have been given the HPV vaccine, which has been recommended in the U.S ...

In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Feb. 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let ...

An independent panel of vaccine experts is not meeting this week in Atlanta, as had long been planned. It was supposed to be the first gathering of the “Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices” ...

The CDC's ad campaign on the flu vaccine is being halted in the middle of peak flu season. The move came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first full week on the job as head of HHS. Drs. Omer Awan ...

The Trump administration was temporarily blocked Friday from slashing diversity, equity and inclusion-related contracts and firing a watchdog—marking setbacks in two court cases—but its plans ...

HHS saw further job cuts on Feb. 15 across agencies including the CDC, FDA and National Institutes of Health, including around 1,000 NIH terminations, after a Trump administration order to ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee Immunization Practices meets regularly throughout the year to issue vaccine recommendations.

polio and other dangerous diseases when speaking to HHS employees at a welcome ceremony this week. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices advises the CDC director on how FDA-approved ...

Kennedy also vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases when speaking to HHS employees at a welcome ceremony this week. The Advisory ...