Apoorva Mandavilli
Viewpoint: Who is RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed CDC senior counselor, Sara Brenner — Vaccine skeptic and self-proclaimed “MAHA mom”
When President Trump named a new leadership team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two weeks ago, public ...
Vaccine shootout at the CDC
When President Trump named a new leadership team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two weeks ago, public ...
How pediatricians are navigating America’s surge of health misinformation
Across the country, clinicians ... are contending with a sharp rise in vaccine hesitancy. They are trying to do what ...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel member quits in anger after judge says he’s not qualified
Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the federal committee that recommends vaccines to Americans, angrily resigned his position on Tuesday ...
As vaccine disinformation sweeps the country, pediatricians struggle to respond
Across the country, clinicians like Dr. [Alissa] Parker, who also holds a doctorate in nursing practice, are contending with a ...
RFK, Jr. vaccine rebuke: Judge reverses Trump administration childhood and Covid vaccine policies
In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts [on March 16, 2026] blocked the ...
Rejecting global science guidance, RFK, Jr.’s vaccine panel chair says polio shots should be optional
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said that he did ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. and the future of children’s vaccines—Less science guidance, more parental gut opinions
For decades, Americans have looked to the federal government for advice on which vaccines their children should get and when ...
Coalition of medical expert organizations formed to counteract RFK, Jr.’s rejectionist recommendations
Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule .... Mr ...
Trump, RFK, Jr. abruptly cancel $12 billion targeting measles clinics, mental health services and addiction treatments
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that ...
Bird flu outbreak edging towards becoming a full-fledged pandemic
When bird flu [H5N1] first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few ...
New York City’s ‘wet markets’ are posing a serious risk to public health
This is a live animal market in Queens. There are about 70 such establishments in New York City’s bustling neighborhoods, ...
Viewpoint: COVID vaccines have exceedingly rare but serious side effects. Why didn’t we listen to the people who had bad reactions?
The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but ...
Climate change ripple effect: Rising temperatures allow mosquitoes to spread across Africa, bringing malaria with them
Mosquitoes that transmit malaria have moved away from the Equator by about three miles per year over the past century, ...
Will an HIV vaccine ever be developed? Failure of Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ global testing raises doubts
The only vaccine against H.I.V. still being tested in late-stage clinical trials has proved ineffective, its manufacturer announced on [January ...
Where did monkeypox come from? Genetic analysis suggests it’s been ‘silently’ circulating since 2018
When the first monkeypox cases were identified in early May, European health officials were stumped. The virus was not known ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
Omicron contains dozens of new mutations — but that doesn’t mean the variant is more dangerous
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has alarmed many scientists because of the sheer number of genetic mutations it carries ...
Do we need COVID booster shots? Hesitancy emerges among key Biden Administration health officials
Following a series of endorsements over the last month by scientific panels advising federal agencies, tens of millions of Americans ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots
Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
Here’s why the CDC relaxed its mask policy a week after announcing confusing guidance
For months, federal officials have vigorously warned that wearing masks and social distancing were necessary to contain the pandemic. So ...
People with compromised immune systems are likeliest evolutionary source of rogue COVID variants
A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month. But this variant, called B.1.1.7, had ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
When we get COVID-19 under control, here’s what it might turn into
The coronavirus is here to stay, but once most adults are immune — following natural infection or vaccination — the ...
HIV patients can now get monthly, FDA-approved injections, replacing multiple daily treatments
The Food and Drug Administration on [January 21] approved a combination of two monthly shots for treatment of H.I.V. in ...
COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
