Healthcare group projects anti-RFK Jr. messages onto HHS building

Protect Our Care, a healthcare advocacy group, on Tuesday projected two critical messages onto the facade of the Health and Human Services (HHS) building in Washington, D.C., blaming HHS Secretary ...

Flu Symptoms in Kids Can Turn Deadly Fast. The Flu Shot Is Still the Best Protection, Doctors Say

After child flu deaths broke a record last winter, the CDC dropped its universal flu shot recommendation for kids. Here's ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Virginia medical leaders sign letter denouncing CDC hepatitis B stance

Four of the top medical leaders in Virginia have signed a letter opposing a vote last week by a Centers for Disease Control committee to end the agency’s recommendation for universal hepatitis B ...
USA Today

CDC officially ends blanket recommendation of hepatitis B vaccine at birth

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...
The Boston Globe

CDC’s hepatitis B reversal puts newborns back at risk

Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston ...
CNN

December 5, 2025 — CDC advisers vote in support of major change to childhood vaccination

• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, instead recommending individual ...
The Boston Globe

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A panel that advises on US vaccine policy ...
Yahoo

Gov. Pritzker signs bill allowing IDPH to override vaccine guidance from CDC

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed a law that creates a state-level framework for vaccine policy and access, in response to uncertainty from the Trump administration. Trump rages that New ...
The Boston Globe

A special message from the secretary of health and human services

Peter Grosz is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning writer who has worked for Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Amy Sedaris and can be heard regularly on NPR’s “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” This week ...
The Boston Globe

Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2

A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new number two ...
The Boston Globe

Under RFK Jr., CDC changes website to reflect vaccine skepticism

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease ...