Science, Medicine, & Education

Most members of a key Senate committee are rejecting President-elect Donald Trump’s skepticism about the safety of vaccines, which suggests Trump could face significant backlash in Congress if he seeks to advance the anti-vaccine movement from the Oval Office. In the week following Trump’s controversial meeting with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., STAT contacted

WASHINGTON – It’s called a “courtesy hearing,” but Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, can expect some of his Senate interrogators to get a little rough. Price, an orthopedic surgeon and six-term GOP congressman from Georgia, will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and

Fifteen years ago, a controversial question about America’s schools dominated headlines, prompted ballot measures in various states and led wealthy philanthropists to dig deep into their pockets in the name of educational reform. Should government money pay for students to attend private — even religious — schools? Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent doubter of the safety of vaccines, told reporters on Tuesday that he will chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity as part of Donald Trump’s administration. The president-elect’s spokeswoman issued a statement hours later saying “no decisions have been made” about “forming a committee on Autism.” But

In an eleventh-hour attempt to cement his legacy on climate change and dissuade his successor from scrapping his policies, President Barack Obama published an article in a top academic journal, Science, this week. Science editors say, according to their records, he is the first sitting US president to author an article in the peer-reviewed journal.

News that President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met on Tuesday rang alarm bells throughout the scientific community, because both have aggressively promoted discredited anti-vaccination theories. Here are the debunked theories they espouse, and what the science actually says. THE CLAIM: That the high number of vaccines given to young children can overwhelm

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump, whose remarks on the safety of vaccinations have alarmed the scientific community, planned to meet Wednesday with outspoken vaccine critic Robert Kennedy Jr. The meeting between Trump and the scion of America’s most prominent Democratic family is likely to concern scientists and public health experts who fear the incoming administration