The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings, and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its funding brutally cut and staff gutted, its mission sabotaged, and its ...

According to Tom McKone (“Science, religion or both?”), “science is all about evidence, asking questions, collecting objective information, and drawing conclusions. It can take us pretty far, but it ...

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Republican Matt Van Epps has won a nationally watched special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House, maintaining his party's grip on the district with help from President Trump. A ...

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory committee, himself a well-known vaccine critic, will be moving to an official role within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency ...

Vaccination has saved 154 million lives since 1974 when the World Health Organization launched its expanded global immunization program. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story. The message is ...