An anti-vaccine lawyer who has regularly sued federal and state health agencies spoke Friday at a meeting of the CDC's ...

Advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted 8-3 Friday to recommend that a mother without ...

The influential advisory panel voted to no longer universally recommend the first dose of the hep B vaccine for newborns ...

Make America Healthy Again is a polarizing slogan, to say the least, but never more than when babies are at the center of the ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Imagine receiving a love poem that reads: “Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, browsing among the lilies,” going on to say that they are a “mount” that the author wishes to “betake” ...

Before voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R–La.) stated on the floor of the Senate that RFK Jr. had promised him that "he ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in an interview published Monday that he warned President Trump to be cautious after briefing the commander in chief about research ...

Ex-New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi alleges that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. uses psychedelics despite being “sober” for years. In her upcoming memoir, “America Canto,” Nuzzi claims that the Secretary ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...