Such a change would put the U.S. more in line with guidance in other countries and with the World Health Organization, which ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly considering removing the COVID-19 vaccination from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommended vaccine schedule ...

Just 13 percent of children have gotten the latest Covid shot, according to the most recent CDC data. And after Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, turned the pandemic response into an ...

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

Kennedy, Hotez says, made a “false statement” in claiming that the scientific community denies that there are any ...

At its meeting on Tuesday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) considered whether the U.S. should ...

Find out why delaying immunizations is risky for babies and young children, and whether a delayed vaccine schedule ever makes ...

chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. At his confirmation hearing, Kennedy promised that he would not change the CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule. About ...

Most adults still do not need an additional dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, the CDC says. But for "people going to or living in areas in the United States with ongoing ...

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, while trying to ...

thereby fundamentally altering the existing schedule or the path to widespread adoption of new vaccines by the public. There is precedent for this. During the COVID pandemic, then-CDC Director ...