Restoring Americans’ trust in the feds’ public-health decisions means hiring truly fair-minded, science-driven folks — not ...

Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

The Affordable Care Act requires all insurance companies to cover, for free, all vaccines the panel recommends. Those ...

Then Cassidy caved. In the speech he gave on the Senate floor explaining his decision, Cassidy said that he’d vote to confirm ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approval of Moderna’s RSV vaccine late Thursday to include people 18 to ...

By Tim Henderson Stateline As super-contagious measles continues to spread and nears a six-year U.S. record, cases in its ...

Rob Lucero says he wants to fill a leadership vacuum that he says both the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing ...

Psychologists refer to it as the Dunning-Kruger effect: a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their competence ...

Bill Nye the Science Guy once had to block Health Secretary RFK Jr. after he sent “miles and miles” of anti-vaccination texts ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely ...