Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are ...

Measles, a highly contagious disease considered to have been eradicated since the turn of the century, is making a comeback.

A month into his role as health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves on vaccines have worried health ...

Former Florida congressmen Dr. Dave Weldon was nominated to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Kennedy Jr., an ardent vaccine critic who would have been Weldon’s boss as health secretary. Perhaps Weldon’s biggest problem ...

The CDC plans to conduct an extensive study researching the connection between autism and vaccines. The move comes as Secretary of Human and Health Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and CDC Director ...

Former CDC nominee goes scorched earth, blaming two Republicans and ‘big Pharma’ for failed bid - Weldon’s nomination to head the CDC was withdrawn just 12 hours before he was supposed to testify to t ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.

The US CDC is preparing to study whether vaccines are linked to autism — despite overwhelming scientific evidence showing no connection.

I only feel comfortable suggesting an RCT of routine vaccines because I am confident it wouldn't get off the ground.

A century ago, measles was killing a thousand people in the U.S. every year. By 2000, vaccines had all but eliminated the ...