She was formally nominated in March after President Donald Trump withdrew his initial pick, former Rep. David Weldon.

She holds a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of Wisconsin, and a postdoctoral researcher at ...

As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial team, we are announcing that Tom Bartlett begins today as a staff writer covering health and science under the second Trump administration.

The Senate health committee voted to confirm Trump's CDC nominee, Susan Monarez. All 12 Republicans voted for her, but no Democrats joined.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, among other medical groups, joined the ...

A panel of vaccine advisers handpicked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. concluded a two-day meeting with votes to limit the availability of certain flu vaccines. Their concern is a preservative that has ...

The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he appointed will no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel is facing criticism from medical experts.

Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on the ACIP agenda.

A key vaccine committee, newly appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted against recommending certain vaccines that contain a preservative long targeted by anti ...

A key vaccine committee, newly appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted against recommending certain vaccines that contain a preservative long targeted by anti ...