The CDC's vaccine panel has voted to stop vaccinating all newborns against Hepatitis B. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior's hand-picked panel made the recommendation Friday ...

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Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS. You can reach Chelsea on Signal at chelseacirruzzo.42. Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a ...

As the government shutdown enters its third week, thousands of federal employees on Friday, including those at the Department of Health and Human Services, have received layoff notices. President ...

The Trump administration is moving to keep some staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after telling them Friday that they were laid off. The National Public Health Coalition, a ...

ATLANTA, Georgia — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has paused a controversial policy that would have ended telework as a reasonable accommodation for employees with disabilities, ...

The committee that offers vaccine advice to the nation’s top public health agency voted Friday against recommending the updated COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 6 months or older, instead leaving the ...

Members also decided not to require a prescription for the COVID-19 vaccine. A panel of vaccine advisers on Friday voted to abandon its previous universal recommendation for annual COVID-19 vaccine ...

WASHINGTON — Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez accused her ex-boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of demanding she pre-approve ...