Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

ATLANTA — A new vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting for a second and final day in Atlanta, with members set to decide on recommendations that could reshape how several vaccines are given in the U.S. The ...

As new radio advertising rules from the FDA take effect this week, radio could potentially be set to receive a much larger piece of pharma’s marketing spend in 2025 because of the policies of incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

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 Signal at hbranswell.01. The Centers for Disease Control ...

"For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children," the FDA's vaccine director, Dr. Vinay Prasad, said in a memo to staff.

Despite enacting rules that prohibit the spread of vaccine misinformation on its platform, Facebook currently hosts ads that falsely claim the vaccine for whooping cough, called pertussis, causes autism and other neurological disorders, according to a Jan ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer. Federal

The announcement to remove the vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization schedule was made Tuesday morning by the Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, CNN reported. Kennedy posted a video to X, in which ...

Public health officials say vaccine hesitancy may be influencing the steady drop in student vaccination rates. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, shifting views on vaccines have become noticeable trends in public health. COVID's influence is ...