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 ...

A law firm involved in the historic $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement involving the NCAA and the nation’s five largest conferences ripped former college football coach Nick Saban and the ...

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have partnered to research the causes of the autism spectrum disorder, creating a database of ...

Offit is the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. This open letter originally ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will close its civil rights office in June, according to an email sent to staff Monday and viewed by POLITICO. The office closure is part of HHS ...

“There is no effective treatment for measles,” says Aniruddha Hazra, an infectious disease physician at University of Chicago Medicine. Measles vaccines prevent infection in 97 percent of ...

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease. By Teddy Rosenbluth With the United States ...

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding. By Kate Zernike To ...

Today's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning that ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s former running mate is coming out against President Donald Trump’s new nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, and is also accusing the HHS secretary of “reporting ...

President Donald Trump is considering an executive order aimed at greater scrutiny towards name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college athletics following a meeting with former Alabama ...

The Cleveland Browns have no qualms about crowding their quarterback room for the 2025 NFL season, drafting both Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel after also adding veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny ...