WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are unilaterally reducing the number of recommended pediatric immunizations in response ...

In fact, the pared-down U.S. vaccine schedule now aims to protect children against fewer diseases than all but one of the 20 ...

Australia’s 2025 flu season lasted weeks longer than it normally does. Hong Kong’s hit so early that the rollout of seasonal ...

Babies who don’t get their first round of vaccines on time at 2 months of age are much less likely to get vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella by age 2, a new study finds.

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The Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS was “staring down a crisis” when Lee Fleisher took charge of the center ...

In the study, no matter how much weight participants lost, regain was four times faster for people ending medication use than ...

Monday’s move by the Department of Health and Human Services — political appointees of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The data, released Monday, also included one late report of a pediatric death from last season, bringing the total to 289 ...

The debate over paying for AI will intensify as more devices enter the field, STAT’s Katie Palmer reports. The FDA has ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Parents across the country are waking up to a childhood vaccine schedule that looks very different from the one they have ...