Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Deborah Fuller, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 4, 2025, Health ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hailed as a “medical miracle” the mRNA vaccines developed to combat the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Now, his health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is ...

WASHINGTON (WLS) -- Medical experts in the Chicago area are weighing in on the decision by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to cancel $500 million in funding for mRNA ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

WASHINGTON (AP) — So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel Prize-winning technology to try to develop vaccines and ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are shown in 2023. It was formulated using mRNA technology. Lee S. Weissman USA TODAY NETWORK As a longtime pediatrician in South Carolina, I am deeply ...

Deborah Fuller receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is co-founder and a scientific advisor for two biotech companies developing nucleic acid vaccine technologies that are not ...

On Sept. 4, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, where he is expected to face questions about his vaccine ...