Dr. Helen Chu gained attention early in the COVID-19 pandemic as her repurposed flu research project identified the first case of coronavirus spreading from person to person in the United States.

Then Cassidy caved. In the speech he gave on the Senate floor explaining his decision, Cassidy said that he’d vote to confirm ...

In more than 20 years of covering policy, I have witnessed some crazy stuff. But one episode towers above the rest in sheer lunacy: the November 2020 meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on ...

Just six months before becoming president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor.

It’s time for President Donald Trump, despite his own casual relationship with the truth, to stop putting American lives at risk and get rid of his dangerous quack in chief, ...

Kennedy's decision to "retire" the previous panel was widely decried by doctors' groups and public health organizations.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on ...

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash after firing all 17 members of the CDCs ...

UNC professor and behavioral scientist Noel Brewer was among the 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Among the eight people Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.