The FDA will encourage new clinical trials on the widely used vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults. The requirements could cost drugmakers tens of millions of dollars and are likely to leave boosters largely out of reach for hundreds of millions of Americans this fall.

Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy

Proposed changes to the vaccine approval process violate ethical and scientific principles.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) asked Kennedy during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday whether he would choose to vaccinate his children against measles. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, dodged the question, then stated that Americans should not be taking “medical advice” from him.

The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded warning labels with more information about the risk of a rare heart condition after vaccination.

Updates and the latest news as Trump addresses House Republicans about the reconciliation bill and RFK Jr. testifies to Congress about DOGE cuts and his vaccine views.

Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne that out — and parts of Europe do vaccinate kids.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Wednesday that he doesn’t think “people should be taking medical advice from me” despite overseeing an agency that issues guidance on vaccines.

President Donald Trump's tax cut and spending bill faces a critical stress test on Wednesday as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives try to overcome internal divisions about cuts to the Medicaid health program and tax breaks in high-cost coastal states.

Trump admin's new FDA update limits annual COVID shots to high-risk groups, ending routine access for healthy kids and adults.