Low uptake may reflect barriers—misinformation, access or shifting insurance coverage—not simply waning need.

The health secretary's stance on vaccines mirrors a broader decline in public support for childhood immunizations. A 2024 Gallup poll shows 40 percent of Americans say it's extremely important for ...

While it does not have the force of a law or official policy, the report will be used to help build a policy plan to enact ...

Under the control of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally terminating universal access to seasonal COVID-19 vaccines; instead, only people who ...

Health agencies working under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are making changes to the nation's decades-old system for approving and ...

Kennedy, who heads the federal government's health department, said his opinions on vaccines were "irrelevant." ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often used his influential position to weigh in on public health issues, but during a congressional hearing he dodged questions about whether children should be vaccinated.

From sowing doubt about childhood vaccines to appointing fringe researchers to lead bogus studies, Kennedy is advancing the ...

The policy is described by HHS official as "radical," but it is short on details Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will require new vaccines to undergo placebo testing ...

Kennedy Jr., says it intends ... be enforced or to which vaccine trials they will apply. It also did not define what it meant by “new vaccine,” though it said the policy would not include ...

Kennedy Jr. will require new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, marking what a department spokesperson called "a radical departure from past practices." The policy change would force vaccines ...