The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Here's what we know.

This is the latest development under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic who has been making sweeping changes to reshape vaccines, food and medicine policies.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed his agency will be cutting funding to mRNA development, calling the vaccine technology "ineffective" and claiming it poses more ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for more than 20 mRNA vaccines.

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is admonishing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's decision to cancel about $500 million in vaccine research — one of his first public conflicts with ...

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to rework the U.S. program for compensating Americans injured by vaccines. The plan has long been a target of anti-vaccine groups.