COVID-19 cases are rising in half of U.S. states. What to know about COVID trends and the new Stratus and Nimbus variants.

STAT reporters discuss more turmoil in the FDA's regulation of gene therapies and a model of funding academic research with private capital.

As FDA chief Marty Makary considers immediate insurance coverage for breakthrough devices, new study finds mixed results from the breakthrough program.

The FDA approval of Vimkunya has given the chikungunya vaccine’s owner, Bavarian Nordic, an extra financial windfall. | The value of priority review vouchers (PRVs) appears to be on the rise as ...

The mercury-based preservative has come under fire from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Even though there’s no evidence that the small amount of thimerosal in vaccines is unsafe or causes autism, in 1999, the Public Health Service (including the FDA, CDC, and the National ...

The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

The department reinstated more than 700 workers at the CDC and over 200 employees at the NIH after massive layoffs this spring, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers on Tuesday.