The top U.S. health agency will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women.

Tuesday's announcement by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bypasses the typical vaccine recommendation process, which includes review by experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is urging lawmakers to take stronger steps to protect children from the potential dangers of social media.

In a recent interview on NBC News’ "Meet the Press," Murthy said Congress has failed to act on what he described as a growing crisis. 

“Congress has not st...

Dozens of staff at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) walked out of a recent town hall meeting after Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya suggested the agency may have helped fund research that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pr...

A new White House report says today’s children are the sickest generation in U.S. history when it comes to chronic disease, and it puts the blame on environmental toxins, poor nutrition and too much screen time.

Called the "MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again," the report was released Thursday by top Trump administration offi...

China has promised to give $500 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the next five years, positioning itself to become the group’s top donor. 

The pledge comes as the United States plans to leave the international organization, The Washington Post reported.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong a...

Some of the nation's top brain researchers are still facing layoffs, even after U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said no working scientists would be cut.

Last month, scientists at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) got layoff notices. NINDS is part of...

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office announced Sunday.

Doctors found the cancer after Biden reported urinary symptoms. Testing showed a small nodule on his prostate. ...

A mother with stage 4 colon cancer faces an uncertain future after federal staff cuts delayed her experimental cancer treatment.

Natalie Phelps, 43, was accepted into an immunotherapy study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But her treatment has been delayed due to ...

President Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and health tech entrepreneur, to be his nominee for U.S. surgeon general. 

The decision comes after Trump withdrew his previous nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, The Associated Press reported.

Trump announced the pick on social media, saying Means has "impec...

A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts.

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) was terminated March 31, though members weren't told until early May, according to several committee members. 

The group worked with the U.S. Centers for Disease Con...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has chosen Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. 

The division oversees vaccines and biologic medicines, including gene therapies, CNN reported.

Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist, a spec...

The official in charge of federal food and drug safety inspections will retire May 14.

Michael Rogers, associate commissioner for inspections and investigations at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced his decisio...

The European Union is looking to capitalize on the Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. research programs to beef up its own.

A $565 million program unveiled Monday aims to make "Europe a magnet for researchers," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said. 

"Unfortunately, we ...

The Trump administration has canceled more than $800 million in research focused on LGBTQ health, cutting hundreds of studies on cancer, HIV and other diseases that affect sexual and gender minority groups. 

Experts say the move could harm public health and reverse progress made in preventing...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change how vaccines are tested in the U.S., a decision that could impact how quickly and widely vaccines are made available.

The department said the new plan will promote transparency, but many health experts warn it could affect vaccine access an...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to launch a multimillion-dollar public health campaign, according to documents reviewed by NBC News.

His "Take Back Your Health" campaign would last four years and could cost tens of millions of dollars. HHS has invited public relation...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will not create a new autism registry, reversing an earlier announcement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

"We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will link existing d...

In a sudden about-face, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it won't slash funding for the Women's Health Initiative, a major research project focused on preventing disease in older women.

The decision follows concerns about a move to end contracts supporting the whole study, which has tracked the health of tens of thousands of women since 1992.

“These ...

At least three medical journals have received letters from a top federal prosecutor questioning whether they mislead readers or allow political bias to influence what they decide to publish.

The letters were signed by Edward Martin Jr., a Republican activist who now serves as interim U.S. attorney in Washington, ...

The Trump administration has replaced two major federal websites for COVID information with a new page that promotes the theory that the virus came from a lab in China.

Covid.gov and Covidtests.gov, which once helped people order COVID tests and find public health information, now redirect to a new page titled "Lab Leak." The page shows an image of President Donald Trump along with the wo...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide private health data to researchers for U.S. health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new autism study.

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told advisers the ai...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has canceled its plans to help Texas schools stop the rapid spread of measles. 

The decision came after some CDC staff involved in this year’s outbreak response were told they might lose their jobs, according to an agency employee.

CDC staff had planned to expand their work in Texas by offering on-site ventilation ...

Key labs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down amid recent layoffs, raising concerns about tracking and controlling serious infections like viral hepatitis and antibiotic-resistant