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Helen Branswell

Articles by Helen Branswell

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away - statnews.com

HealthMarch 4, 2026

Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital on his shift. The 3-year-old waâ...

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ - statnews.com

HealthJanuary 22, 2026

With measles transmission in the United States at levels that havent been seen in decades, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would n…...

When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier - statnews.com

HealthJanuary 10, 2026

The U.S. childhood vaccination schedule has been dramatically reduced, purportedly because, as federal health officials argued, the now-discarded schedule recommended children get far more vaccines t…...