Politics have largely stayed out of Julie Linton’s South Carolina pediatrician’s office over the years — that is, until ...

Decades of research show the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is safe in vaccines, but CDC's new advisory panel is ...

The time is now for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reaffirm his commitment to safeguarding public health.  However, the recent and abrupt firing of all 17 members and the ...

In a statement, a CDC spokesman acknowledged hurdles to overcoming vaccine hesitancy in the US. “This is an unprecedented and complex public health challenge,” wrote Jason McDonald, the agency ...

Some members of the scientific community have concern that they’re coming out of the COVID pandemic—exposure to the virus, exposure to various countermeasures—there may be a pattern of broad-based, uh ...

A CDC advisory panel vote to recommend against use of seasonal influenza vaccines containing small amounts of thimerosal ...

The Rise of Vaccine Hesitancy. ... Preliminary CDC data as of mid-September 2024 show five times more cases than the same period in 2023, ... Complex issues like vaccine efficacy, ...

Almost as soon as scientists began working on vaccines against COVID-19, public-health experts began to worry about “vaccine hesitancy,” the refusal or reluctance of people to get a shot.While ...

Historically, Americans have had high levels of trust in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which has been a key source of information about the COVID vaccine. However, the CDC’s reputation has ...

Hamel didn't elaborate on what she meant by “politicized,” but there are several data points that help explain how a person's opinion on vaccination became a partisan dividing line. For example, some ...