For immediate release: December 5, 2025 (25-145) Contact: DOH Communications

A close look at how the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee under RFK Jr. again changed high-stakes recommendations without solid evidence.

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Our estimates of current vaccine coverage and forecasts to 2030 suggest that achieving IA2030 targets, such as halving zero-dose children compared with 2019 levels and reaching 90% global coverage for...

Billionaire philanthropist says his foundation will maintain funding at previous levels ahead of pledging event

The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.

Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.

A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

Time to Move Forward: What Decades of Consistent Evidence Should Tell Us

The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.

In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.

My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.

The advisory committee meeting is a critical resource for vaccine makers trying to figure out which flu strains to include in their shots for the next flu season.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

The health secretary is planning to remove members of a panel that recommends vaccines if he sees conflicts of interest.

A strong recommendation from a healthcare provider is the single most influential factor in someone deciding to vaccinate - learn how you can make a difference.

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

Leaders have been told urgently to rank thousands of their employees who are in probationary periods, with as many as 40 percent to be deemed not mission-critical.

Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

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