Hundreds across the country are attending town halls to make their opinions heard on the ongoing cuts to the federal workforce by the Trump administration. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., joins Alex Witt to discuss these public forums and cuts to the federal scientific agencies.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is having a huge impact on cervical cancer prevention among young women, a U.S. government report published Thursday suggests. Why it matters: The CDC report shows that rates of precancerous lesions among women aged 20-24 screened for cervical cancer dropped by about 80% from 2008 to 2022.

The CDC said the last confirmed measles death in the United States was in 2015, before this latest outbreak killed an unvaccinated child in Texas.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says the CDC has sent vaccines to Texas, but emphasizes using vitamin A to treat the disease -- worrying infectious disease doctors.

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it's partnering with the Texas Department of State Health Services.

How the World Health Organization is responding after the United States dropped out, why a teenager stayed awake during his heart surgery, looking at those suffering from long COVID five years after the beginning of the pandemic,

HOUSTON — Texas health officials report that measles cases have jumped again in an update released Friday morning. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported that 198 measles cases in nine counties have been identified since late January. Twenty-three patients have been hospitalized.

The possibility of a link between vaccines and autism has been repeatedly debunked by hundreds of scientific studies.

Unvaccinated Texas man dies after contracting virus, country's total tally rise to 159. Read on to know what CDC has to say.

The CDC is responding to a growing measles outbreak, with nearly 160 cases reported since late January. Twenty-two people have been hospitalized. Gaines County in far west Texas has the most cases, with 107.