You can’t blame this one on the stork. After a brief baby bump early in the COVID-19 pandemic, birth rates in the US and other wealthy countries dropped as the public health emergency eased. That ...

President William Ruto has made several new appointments and reappointments to key government boards and institutions, as published in a Kenya Gazette notice dated February 6, 2026. The President ...

One panelist accused the F.D.A. of withholding data on potential harms. The advisers also are reviewing research on vaccines given to pregnant women. By Apoorva Mandavilli Members of the federal ...

One of the biggest hurdles in developing an HIV vaccine is coaxing the body to produce the right kind of immune cells and antibodies. In most vaccines, HIV proteins are attached to a larger protein ...

This winter's brutal flu season isn't over, and COVID-19 cases have risen recently too. But a new poll taken in recent weeks shows that vaccination against both viruses lags among people 50 and over, ...

The Trump administration appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the new role of Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025. His appointment was followed by his ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already inflicted great damage upon America’s vaccine infrastructure, yet the health and human services secretary is only getting started. His next target is the system that ...

Some officials in the Trump administration are at odds with others who are helping shape vaccine policy over whether to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. market, according to a report from Axios.

Three new measles cases have been reported in Florida this year in adults aged 20-29. Measles is a highly contagious infection with a 90% transmission rate to unvaccinated individuals. The measles ...

Postdoctoral scientist Janna Moen looks at brain tissue sections from covid-infected mice in March at the Iwasaki Lab at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. (Jackie Molloy for The ...