Governor Maura Healey announced Jan. 14 that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health will not enact the Center for ...

Vaccines are not banned. Parents can still protect their children. Pediatricians can still recommend these vaccines. Families ...

The Evidence to Recommendations framework ensured that the US vaccine schedule was scientifically sound. Then RFK Jr. abandoned it ...

An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely ...

CDC databases that were updated at least monthly were no longer current in 2025, hindering timely, evidence-based ...

A coalition of medical groups have expanded an ongoing lawsuit against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has walked back its decades-old insistence that vaccines do not cause autism, updating its website late Wednesday to promote a debunked link ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a leadership upheaval – and at the center is concerns about the agency's approach to vaccines and U.S. public health. The White House on ...

Guam, through its Department of Public Health and Social Services, has joined a growing number of states pushing back against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sweeping changes ...

With the federal government cutting vital programs and reducing the public health workforce (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone lost roughly 3,000 employees in 2025), many states and ...