Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has halted nearly half a billion dollars in funding for mRNA-based respiratory vaccines—and thereby ended America’s leadership research into ...

Amid political chatter about vaccines and the government entities that oversee them, it’s understandable to wonder where all this leaves the 2025-26 flu vaccine.

Scientists say HHS’ decision to defund mRNA vaccine research will leave the country less prepared for pandemics, and make it ...

The U.S. government announced funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research. What is the impact on American healthcare and biotech?

Illinois researchers, including some working on vaccines for cancer and rare diseases, worry the federal government turning ...

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Kennedy apparently favors the century-old whole-virus vaccines, which can make recipients feel as if they were hit by a Mack ...

Showing that his loyalty to his own anti-vax mentality is greater than his loyalty to President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the dangerous quack atop the Department of Health and Human ...

Stocks turned in a mixed performance on Friday as the market took a breather from a rally that has lifted major indexes to ...

The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, as a report on consumer sentiment revealed growing concerns about tariff impacts, inflation, and the jobs market.

The Nobel Prize-winning technology underpinning COVID-19 vaccines is also fueling a host of biotechs developing treatments ...

The average short interest in the S&P 500 Health Care Index Sector (XLV) dipped slightly in July to 1.95% from 1.96% in June.