N.Y., on Friday urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declare a public health emergency for measles after confirmed cases of the virus reached their highest number in more than three decades ...

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

High fever, cough, and a distinctive rash. All symptoms of a disease that we thought were behind us. A disease previously ...

As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious disease to spread rampantly.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that he will work to "fix" the program that compensates victims of ...

Trump’s health secretary confounds experts with his baseless claims about vaccines and diets, but his ideas are resonating ...

With vaccines in the state, national, and international news, here is what you need to know as we head back to school.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported July 8 a total of 1,288 confirmed measles cases in 39 ...

Measles cases have reached a 33-year high with breakouts across 39 states. Critics have called on HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reform the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent mass firing of the C.D.C.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is only the latest step in his years-long ...