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An advisory panel on vaccines meets, carefully, in the shadow of a health secretary who has often criticized it.
ATLANTA — A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a ...
While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.” ...
Less than a quarter of adults and around 13% of children have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination this past season, CDC data shows, ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside panel of vaccine experts on Tuesday discussed narrowing ...
Daisy was the second child to die during the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. An unvaccinated 6-year-old girl from the Mennonite community ...
RFK Jr. claims the measles vaccine effectiveness wanes at a rate of nearly 5% a year, an assertion medical experts dispute.
When the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life of a second child, his comments made waves because he ...
State health officials on Tuesday said the number of measles cases in the state linked to a West Texas outbreak has grown to 561 since January.
The measles outbreak in western Texas continues to grow, with 561 confirmed cases, according to new data published Tuesday. Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals ...
During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared ...