It plays a big role in deciding which vaccines kids and adults get routinely, what's covered by insurance and which shots are ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of an influential committee, including the appointment of new members, has created concern ...

Dr. Todd Ellerin spoke on how mass firings at the CDC can affect the public's trust in health officials. Ellerin says a new committee appointed by Department of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently removed all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Who could be on the committee next and what changes may be coming?

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.

"I am very concerned," says Dr. Walter Orenstein, who served as director of the U.S. immunization program at the CDC from 1988 to 2004 and is now professor emeritus of infectious diseases at Emory ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or “Nimbus,” that has spread across Europe, the Americas and the Western Pacific.

It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for ...

Inflammation, a natural immune response, may affect weight gain by causing insulin resistance and affecting hormones that ...

Your tax dollars fund the police that patrol your neighborhoods, the firefighters who responded to last year’s blaze on Blue ...

The two ways to get lifelong protection from the highly contagious disease is to have already had it or get the MMR vaccine.