I called RFK Jr. an "extinction-level" threat to US biomedical science and public health. That extinction is under way.

Measles is one of the most challenging diseases to control. It requires a sustained uptake of well over 90% of two doses of a ...

The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more ...

The recent measles outbreak in West Texas is a wake-up call, exposing the fragility of America’s immunization programs and ...

The stagnant immunization grant funding in Texas has made it harder for local health departments to keep their programs going ...

As measles cases continue to grow in West Texas, officials are sounding the alarm that funding cuts could lead to outbreaks ...

Overall, Texas has among the lowest per capita state funding for public health in the nation, just $17 per person in 2023, ...

Immunization programs nationwide have been left brittle by years of stagnant funding by federal, state and local governments.

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public ...

Since taking the helm of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has both backed vaccination as a public health tool and made remarks that ...