As far as sticker price goes, the recommended vaccines for kids in the United States do not come cheap. The hepatitis-B shot, given within the first hours of life, can…
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Three months into its tenure, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisory committee has taken down one of its easiest targets. Today, its members voted to limit the national guidance…
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The world’s market for vaccines, as it exists today, depends on the United States. The U.S. has poured immense resources into the design and development of vaccines, and has paid…
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Americans across the political spectrum are aligned on at least one belief, albeit for different reasons: The CDC is a mess. In a poll conducted this summer by The Washington…
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In 2022, Florida weathered a bad outbreak of meningococcal disease, a type of fast-moving bacterial infection that can become fatal after entering the bloodstream or the lining of the brain…
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Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the CDC’s director and three other senior officials resigned in protest, public-health experts—including a former CDC director, a renowned vaccine expert, and at…
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Pesticides once appeared to be a clear target for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s desire to “make America healthy again.” Before becoming the health secretary, he described Monsanto, the maker of…
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When Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in 2021, the state’s lieutenant governor, Susan Bysiewicz, boasted that the new law was “crafted to repair the wounds left by the War on Drugs.”…
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At 38 weeks pregnant with her second child, Hannah Robb has no time to waste on red tape. Yet she’s lost hours in her struggle to figure out whether and…
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When she succeeded Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Jeanne Marrazzo felt that she’d landed “probably the most important infectious-disease job in…