The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services adopted Aug. 4 the Advisory ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention debuted a new public health awareness campaign this week focused on educating ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted a vote by a federal immunization panel to recommend the influenza vaccine for children, pregnant women and all adults earlier ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month quietly endorsed recommendations from his handpicked vaccine advisors that ...

The virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, has sickened 7,000 people in Guangdong province since June. China has revived many covid-era rules to combat the outbreak. Also in the news, Zika virus, covid ...

A new CDC panel is expected to meet soon to consider whether to revise, roll back, or hold steady on current vaccine guidelines. Flu and COVID vaccine recommendations are shifting, which is raising ...

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The mercury-based preservative thimerosal will be removed from all flu shots distributed in United States, Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.

The action will remove from use the very few flu shots that contain the contested preservative, elevating unproven fears it poses health risks.

The CDC declared the end of its emergency response to H5N1 avian flu as a health threat to humans, David Murray writes.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), annual influenza vaccination is the first and most important action recommended to reduce the risk of flu and its potentially ...