NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines on COVID vaccines for kids and pregnant women.

Fatalities among children were high again for a second year in Florida, while national numbers were the highest since the ...

Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a hearing last week that no one has died from USAID cuts. But aid groups say abruptly shutting down those programs is having deadly consequences.

Medicaid plays a vital role in many rural communities that favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But residents ...

The federal government has removed COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women and children. The change is raising concerns among some independent experts.