The Trump administration has stated it wants the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule to look more like peer nations such as Denmark. Critics say the U.S. has different health threats. The Trump ...

Daniel Payne reports on how the health industry and Washington influence and impact each other. He joined STAT in 2025 after covering health care at POLITICO. You can reach Daniel on Signal at danielp ...

During my 15 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a medical reviewer of drugs and vaccines, Special Assistant to the Commissioner, and founding director of the Office of ...

Influenza A H3N2 subclade K has driven flu cases across the country, with 52 counties in Florida seeing increases over the past week. While the current flu vaccine might be a "mismatch," it still ...

So much has changed in American public health under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin and Alex Ellerbeck, two editors in Opinion, ...

Covering vaccines used to be routine, but then came COVID, and now this year... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) PARKS: ...It's become something else entirely. ROB STEIN, BYLINE: It's been quite a ride this year.

Vaccinations used to seem simple. Your doctor would tell you which to get, and you’d roll up your sleeve at the office or a nearby pharmacy. Now we’re seeing changing recommendations, and some people ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has considered altering the U.S. vaccine schedule to be more closely aligned with Denmark’s, people familiar with the matter said, but no final decision has been ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is planning to reduce the number of shots in the schedule of recommended vaccines for children, according to reports. The U.S. vaccination schedule ...

Carl Kurlander has previously received grants from the Grable Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the R.K. Mellon Foundation years ago for the making of the polio movie. He receives no ...

Last Friday, Stanford Medicine confirmed that the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine can cause myocarditis. In a new study, the researchers detailed, for the first time, causation between the vaccine and ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.