The future of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s panel of vaccine advisers is unclear, even among its recently appointed members.

In 2008, Harvard University quietly decided it would refuse future donations from a generous benefactor, Jeffrey Epstein.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ne...

The US Department of Health and Human Services will recommend fewer vaccines for most American children, health officials said Monday.

The Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, is postponed as the nominee goes into labor with her first child, according to a Senate Health, Education ...

The Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, is postponed as the nominee goes into labor with her first child, according to a Senate Health, Education ...

Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, is being ousted, according to three sources familiar with the situation who spoke on th...

Ahead of the first meeting of newly appointed vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lawmakers are sharing fresh concerns about the panel’s membership and last-minute ...

Poor diet, environmental toxins, unhealthy habits and pharmaceuticals are contributing to a national rise in chronic illnesses, particularly among children, top Trump officials said in a Thursday repo...

The opulent ballroom of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel is a regular stop on the high-dollar circuit of industry conferences that populate downtown Washington.

House lawmakers repeatedly pressed US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy on canceled medical research and mass layoffs during a Wednesday hearing on Trump administration proposals t...

Universities across the country are scrambling to comply with President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity push in an effort to hold on to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants that fund critic...

President Trump unveiled his plan to dramatically overhaul the way the U.S. pays for drugs. Pharma investors didn't seem to care.

As part of their effort to pass a massive tax, immigration and spending cuts package, House Republicans are eyeing plans to shave billions from the federal budget. Some of those cuts could affect Medi...

The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the division that oversees vaccines and biologic me...

The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was a manmade pathogen that leaked from an infectious disease laboratory in Wu...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a “massive testing and research effort” involving hundreds of scientists worldwide that will determine “what has caused the autism epidemic”...

A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

Monarez is the CDC's acting director and a longtime biosecurity expert with ties to former President Biden’s flagship health initiative.

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Unlike President Trump's picks to lead other health agencies who established their conservative bona fides during the Covid-19 pandemic,

President Trump's nominee to lead the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, demurred on his view on Trump’s move to slashi NIH indirect cost payments to universities and other instituions.

Judge Angel Kelley kept in place an order blocking the Trump administration from implementing a 15% cap on NIH indirect cost payments

Judge Angel Kelley kept in place an order blocking the Trump administration from implementing a 15% cap on NIH indirect cost payments

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was met with boos and jeers at a town hall in a north Atlanta suburb Thursday.

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The former head of the FDA's food division told STAT he resigned because cuts made by the Trump administration imperil the agenda set forth by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments

As health secretary, Kennedy could revive a defunct task force to scrutinize the safety of shots given to babies and kids.

Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Susan Collins (Maine) expressed concern Monday about the impact on biomedical research of large cuts to overhead spending.

Documents analyzed by STAT show that big losers under the NIH's cuts to biomedical research include Stanford, Vanderbilt, Cornell, UT systems.

Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead

At a Senate confirmation hearing for RFK Jr. on Wednesday, there was discussion of abortion, Medicaid, and Covid-19. There was also discussion of onesies.

At a Senate confirmation hearing for RFK Jr. on Wednesday, there was discussion of abortion, Medicaid, and Covid-19. There was also discussion of onesies.

STAT annotates emails physician Kerry Kennedy Meltzer received from her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., commenting on the safety of Covid vaccines and others.