As 2026 dawns, look for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ramp up his assault on vaccines using policy-based evidence making and altering Vaccine Court standards.

In sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends ...

Food recalls often come and go without anyone paying much attention, but this devastating recall of frozen vegetables sent ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday finds that Covid vaccines continue to protect healthy children from severe illness — a conclusion top federal health officials have ...

Daskalakis is the former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and is principal at Dr Demetre Consulting. Jernigan is the former director of the CDC’s ...

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 ...

Norovirus cases have risen in the United States in recent weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 14% of tests for the illness came back positive during ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

The CDC is instructing scientists to end all research involving monkeys by the end of the year, in a move that will impact around 200 macaques and an unknown number of studies, Science first reported.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...