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.

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 ...

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.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” anti-vaxxers, an upside-down food pyramid, and the many ways MAHA is transforming public ...

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 ...

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

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law on Friday a Northeast Nebraska senator’s proposal to restructure the state’s ...

In the hubbub and widespread criticism that accompanied the CDC's new recommended childhood vaccine schedule, released this week, one subtle change has gone mostly under the radar. It concerns the HPV ...

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 ...

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