The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a bold step to restore public trust by reconstituting the ...

Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Affordable Care Act requires all insurance companies to cover, for free, all vaccines the panel recommends. Those ...

Then Cassidy caved. In the speech he gave on the Senate floor explaining his decision, Cassidy said that he’d vote to confirm ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approval of Moderna’s RSV vaccine late Thursday to include people 18 to ...

In a move that's left the healthcare community reeling, Health Secretary RFK Jr. announced a new panel of vaccine advisors ...

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Observer readers comment on Pat McCrory's legacy, the national debt, RFK's vaccine expert firings, ICE and immigrants, ...

Kennedy's decision to "retire" the previous panel was widely decried by doctors' groups and public health organizations.

The HHS document meant to support Kennedy’s decision, obtained by KFF Health News, was sent to members of Congress who ...