Federal health officials have pared back the number of shots recommended for children. The states, led by Democrats, say the changes were not based on science. By Apoorva Mandavilli Aiming to reverse ...

California is challenging a revision of the U.S. childhood immunization schedule issued earlier this year under the Trump administration as part of a multistate lawsuit announced on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

Several Democratic-run states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Health and Human Services over its decision to remove seven vaccines from the childhood vaccination schedule. “The ...

Wisconsin will join a lawsuit challenging the CDC's recent changes to the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule. In January, CDC leadership announced it would greatly reduce the number of vaccines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health care worker places a bandage on a child after giving a vaccination shot. (Scott Housley/Centers for Disease Control and ...

In mid-February, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) communications director Andrew Nixon announced the cancellation of the February meeting of the nation’s premier vaccine advisory panel ...

Walgreens is laying off more than 600 employees in two states as it continues reshaping operations under private equity ownership, Bloomberg reported Feb. 19. The company will reduce its Illinois ...

Oregon and a coalition of Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration, arguing that federal officials unlawfully upended the nation’s long-standing childhood vaccine schedule and weakened ...

On January 5th, the Department of Health and Human Services, under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., removed several vaccines from the universally recommended schedule for children: hepatitis A ...