The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...

Federal documents show he disagreed with conclusions the benefits outweighed the risk of side effects, which are rare.

A document the Department of Health and Human Services distributed to members of Congress to justify recent changes to ...

Authors cited in a document circulated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as justification for changes ...

At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency scientists who normally generate and interpret data to inform this ...

Many people here and around the world need to be able to rely on U.S. health officials. That’s becoming increasingly ...

The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and longtime target of the anti-vaccine world.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu ...