As the Trump administration shakes up recommendations for childhood vaccines, some states are moving to ensure vaccines remain free and health care workers are protected from lawsuits.

One of the two new members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices questioned the safety of COVID-19 vaccines before the Texas Senate in 2021.

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda. In the year that US Health and Human Services ...

The bills, one brought by Gov. Ned Lamont, and a second by the Public Health Committee, which will hold a public hearing on the bills Wednesday, clarify and strengthen Connecticut’s control over ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported that 649 mothers died in 2024 during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth. That is down from 669 deaths in 2023, and a ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” anti-vaxxers, an upside-down food pyramid, and the many ways MAHA is transforming public ...

California and 14 other states are suing the CDC, calling the recommendations a departure from standard medical advice that ...

A growing health debate is spilling into America’s coffee cups, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. questions the amount of sugar in drinks sold by Starbucks and Dunkin’.

U.S. childhood and teen obesity rates have reached record-highs while adult obesity rates may be slowing, according to two ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law on Friday a Northeast Nebraska senator’s proposal to restructure the state’s ...

Fewer US women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the ...