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When Susan Monarez took the helm of the beleaguered US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late July, she had her work cut out…

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has avoided meetings with top health officials, even as deadly…

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just three weeks after she had…

The abrupt termination last month of nearly half a billion dollars in US government contracts for mRNA vaccine research rattled scientists working inside and outside industry.…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.In recent weeks several prominent public health experts have resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and…

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In another vote, advisers recommended adding language on the shot’s risks to the vaccine’s information sheet, which is already required by law.The committee’s focus on Covid-19…

As far as sticker price goes, the recommended vaccines for kids in the United States do not come cheap. The hepatitis-B shot, given within the first…

A revamped panel of US vaccine advisers appointed by the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday decided not to go ahead with a planned…

A powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain a…