SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for children, calling the move an illegal threat to public health.

And though most scientists hail vaccines as one of public health’s greatest achievements, they have provoked fear, distrust, ...

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New recommendations last week from an influential vaccine panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke with long-standing U.S. precedent on Covid shots and ...

Utah pediatrician Ellie Brownstein is used to encountering parents hesitant to get their child vaccinated. But after the Trump administration in early January pared back the list of vaccines routinely ...

The Food and Drug Administration intends to get tougher on vaccine approvals, as top officials raised concerns about the risk of COVID vaccines for children. Speaking on Fox News Saturday morning, FDA ...