1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (598+ words) Gage Skidmore / Flickr cc A new poll from a progressive polling firm shows support for the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is narrow and highly vulnerable, and that support drops significantly when voters learn about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (844+ words) Welcome to'The State of U. S. Vaccine Policy, our biweekly series in partnership with'CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. Two weeks ago, we came to you with a'Special Edition celebrating the March 16th court ruling as a genuine win for vaccines, science, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (563+ words) Attorneys general from 14 states led by Democrats and the governor of Pennsylvania sued the Trump administration today over recent changes to the recommended childhood vaccine schedule. Attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (585+ words) A new'report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that two key federal programs designed to bolster the nation's public health emergency readiness lack formal coordination and do not adequately track whether states and local jurisdictions can respond effectively…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (851+ words) In a new Government Accountability Office (GAO)report on biosafety and biosecurity, the biological agents and research standards of nine of 10 selected Group of Twenty (G20) countries had similar key features as those in US precautions. The report to Congress assesses…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (507+ words) The political climate where people live may matter as much as what they believe politically when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination, according to a'study published this week in PLOS One. Researchers from Colgate University and Syracuse University found that politically…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (837+ words) The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has tapped Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, as its next chief executive officer (CEO), which some observers in the scientific community hail as a bold move that signals the society's willingness to push back…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1073+ words) Gage Skidmore / Flickr cc As the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broad powers to shape federal vaccine policy. In June, he fired all 17 members of an influential panel on immunization policy,…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (484+ words) A'survey fielded weeks after the 2024 US presidential election suggests that most Americans supported current government-backed vaccination programs and school immunization requirements before the second Trump administration rapidly began reshaping federal vaccine policy. The findings appeared in a JAMA Health Forum…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1201+ words) The latest Quinnipiac University poll finds only one third (33%) of surveyed US adults approve of the job US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing and that 67% support school-based vaccine requirements. Kennedy's approval has dropped from…...