Dr. Vinay Prasad was a polarizing figure at the Food and Drug Administration and is leaving the agency at the end of April.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times Vaccine chief: Dr. Vinay Prasad, a ...

A year after Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, warily cast the vote ensuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ascension to health and human services secretary, his life’s work — in medicine and in ...

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European regulators advanced several new medicines, including a combined flu and COVID vaccine and new treatments for rare diseases.

RFK names members CDC vaccine panel, adding two clinicians before the March ACIP meeting to review COVID-19 vaccine guidance.

Kennedy said in a statement that Sean G. Downing, a primary care doctor licensed in Florida, and Angelina Farella, a pediatrician in Texas, would join the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, ...

Examine the benefits and challenges of using yeast and vaccines for more effective and consumer-friendly immunization strategies.

Over a dozen states sued the Trump administration for rolling back vaccine recommendations for children, which the officials argued pose a health risk to Americans. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said on X that her guest at the State of the Union address, Aliya Rahman, was “aggressively handled ...

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CDC leadership announced in early January that the agency would dramatically reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all American children.