A Long Island “homemaker” forged proof that a group of middle school kids had been vaccinated and forged the signatures of health care providers, state officials said.

G avi, the Vaccine Alliance, supplies vaccines to nearly half of the world’s children. For decades, governments, institutions, and private groups around the world have provided the funding it needs to buy, stockpile and distribute vaccines at reduced cost for lower and middle-resource countries.

Clifford Lane, a 45-year veteran of the NIH and close confidant of Fauci as NIAID deputy director for clinical research, and NIAID microbiology and infectious diseases director Emily Erbelding, have lost their jobs, two of the people familiar with the matter said.

The Kansas Supreme Court is weighing whether to block a sweeping state law that lets workers easily bypass COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Kim V. Narry, director of the Center for RNA Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has uncovered a key cellular mechanism that affects the function of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.

The most transmissible infectious disease is now in Colorado. The first case of measles has been confirmed in Pueblo.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children.

As preventable infections like measles threaten to become endemic again in the US, researchers whose government grants were recently terminated are warning about the consequences of throttling studies looking at ways to increase vaccination.