As the Trump administration shakes up recommendations for childhood vaccines, some states are moving to ensure vaccines remain free and health care workers are protected from lawsuits.

One of the two new members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines before the Texas Senate in 2021.

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda. In the year that US Health and Human Services ...

California and 14 other states are suing the CDC, calling the recommendations a departure from standard medical advice that ignored federal laws.

Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now reject at least some federal vaccine guidance as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to de-emphasize the importance of ...

U.S. childhood and teen obesity rates have reached record-highs while adult obesity rates may be slowing, according to two ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle ...

Chris Klomp, a political unknown a year ago, is now steering the $2.6 trillion health department. Several controversial appointees have since left.

U.S. childhood and teen obesity rates have reached record-highs while adult obesity rates may be slowing, according to two ...

Fewer US women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the ...

More than a thousand written testimonies have been submitted in opposition to each of a pair of bills as advocates gear up to fight their passage Wednesday at the Capitol. The bills, one brought by ...

Oregon will now mark March 4 as HPV Awareness Day each year under a new bipartisan law to help Oregonians learn about the virus, get vaccinated and catch cancers earlier just as federal health ...