The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started ...

A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move ...

The Senate parliamentarian struck down several major health care measures in Republicans’ tax bill, including Medicaid ...

A CDC advisory panel on Thursday voted 5-2 to recommend the use of a new preventative RSV therapy in babies, Merck’s ...

Over the past few months, several op-eds and commentaries have offered solutions to keep U.S. science moving forward in the ...

In the debate over Medicaid reform, one dubious claim keeps getting tossed around. But the evidence for it is weak.

We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, ...

State workers who for decades have been pivotal in identifying U.S. cancer trends, curbing new cases, and improving screening ...

Eric Green said the process leading to his ouster as a NIH institute director by the Trump administration remains "shrouded ...

Policymakers will need to address the true drivers of high drug prices here at home, while simultaneously pressing our allies ...

A divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, ...

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