The senior member of Oregon’s congressional delegation, Wyden plans to run for reelection in 2028, Hank Stern, a spokesperson for Wyden, said in a text message to OPB. Wyden turns 76 on Saturday.

The new vaccines, then, will be less expensive to produce than IPVs, helping to improve fair and equal access to vaccination – ensuring that once polio is eradicated, it will stay eradicated.

Recombinant expression systems for production of stabilised virus-like particles as next-generation polio vaccines. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56118-z ...

Attorney Aaron Siri is an ally of HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He asked the FDA to withdraw or suspend the polio vaccine.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden opposed the nomination yesterday, telling the Senate floor that Kennedy “demonstrated a shocking lack of knowledge about the federal health programs he’d be charged with ...

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, which was the committee that voted on advancing Kennedy's nomination, called him an "anti-vaccine crusader" and the ...

Longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now the nation’s top health official, after the Senate on Thursday voted almost entirely on party lines to confirm him atop a department of ...

However, during his confirmation hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Finance Committee, suggested that he didn't seem to know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.

Kennedy was sworn in on Thursday afternoon as the 26th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Oval Office by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch.

The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.

“Mr. Kennedy, you have spent years pushing conflicting stories about vaccines,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, during the first confirmation hearing.

WASHINGTON – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as health secretary cleared a key hurdle Wednesday as the Senate approved a procedural measure that paves the way for his confirmation this week ...