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What To Know About the CDC’s Baseless New Guidance on Autism
The rewriting of a page on the CDC’s website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrecking the credibility of an agency they’ve long relied on for unbiased […]
RFK Jr. Wants To Delay the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Here’s What Parents Need To Know.
[Update: On Dec. 5, 2025, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of mothers who test positive for the virus or whose status is unknown should be immunized soon after birth.] Working out of a tribal-owned hospital […]
While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again. More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some would lose their hearing. Some would die. Measles is also expensive. A new study — not yet […]