A decades-old data set tracking the health of new moms and babies was disrupted by CDC layoffs last spring, and there are ...

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp. But ...

To most people, the eight-person team was indistinguishable from the hundreds of other scientists and researchers cut in April during the mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Doctors say the controversial vote to not recommend the vaccine for all newborns is creating chaos and hurdles for parents.

Relying on testing to guide vaccination recalls an approach the United States tried in the 1980s and early ’90s that still led to thousands of cases of hepatitis B among children every year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer will recommend COVID-19 shots for healthy pregnant women and healthy children, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to recommend a reversal on a decades-long newborn hepatitis B vaccination, ...