Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, abruptly canceled a meeting this week of a federal task force that helps determine which preventive health measures must be covered ...

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee sent a letter to the CDC chief of staff on Thursday, demanding answers over recent ...

House Oversight Committee Democrats are demanding a briefing with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade ...

The Senate health committee voted on partisan lines Wednesday morning to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee for Centers ...

The vaccines are intended to be developed for use against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus, two hemorrhagic fevers in the same family as the Ebola virus ...

Infectious disease specialist Monica Gandhi, MD examines recent claims about the safety of thimerosal, a preservative used in ...

The recent replacement of the entire CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) raises serious public health ...

Six medical groups today sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a ...

When asked about Kennedy’s views on sleep, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told me that “Secretary ...

The ACIP is a federal advisory committee composed of medical and public health experts who make recommendations on the use of vaccines for adults and children in the US.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...