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FILE PHOTO: Congolese medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) prepare an emergency unit at the Katw...

World Sep 19

Congo begins Ebola vaccinations for health workers in the epicenter of the outbreak

By Constant Same Bagalwa, Associated Press

Politics Sep 17

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an event on screen time harm in c...
WATCH: RFK Jr. speaks at conference for anti-vaccine group he founded

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address Thursday at a conference of an anti-vaccine activist group he once chaired, telling the hundreds in attendance that they had a friend in President Donald Trump's White House.

By Fatima Hussein, Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

Health Sep 02

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Pediatrician says RFK Jr. sowing doubt about measles-associated deaths

A coalition of leading medical groups issued their own vaccine guidance in response in part to changing and confusing messaging from federal officials. It comes on the heels of rising measles cases in multiple states. William Brangham discussed more with…

By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas, David Bentley

Health Aug 28

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Watch 5:53
Groundbreaking treatments and vaccines offer hope in fight against cancer

There have been several promising developments lately in cancer research and treatment, including a new drug approved by the FDA this week for advanced pancreatic cancer. William Brangham reports.

By William Brangham, Solveig Rennan Sandbulte

Politics Aug 27

Kennedy Measles Samoa
AP report: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preempted the 2019 visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who…

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

Aug 17

U.S. school vaccination rates inch down again as exemptions reach record high

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

It’s the fourth consecutive year that the national average exemption rate has reached a new record, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons.

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Aug 14

Trump's vaccine order would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Monday’s announcement by Trump calls for separating combination shots — including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — into separate injections.

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Aug 12

Trump's vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.

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Aug 10

WATCH: Trump signs executive order on childhood vaccine recommendations

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

The order recommends separating the MMR vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits, and directs the nation's health department to improve vaccine research, says a White House fact sheet.

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Aug 06

New kind of flu shot is on the way as the FDA approves Moderna's mRNA-based vaccine

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults age 50 or older.

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