During his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to disavow comments he had made disparaging ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who awaits confirmation as Donald Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, helped organize mass ...

Shares of Merck are sliding in early trading after the drugmaker surprised Wall Street with a lower-than-expected 2025 sales ...

Merck on Tuesday missed earnings estimates, lowered its guidance for this year’s earnings, and withdrew a target for sales of ...

Merck & Co.’s blockbuster vaccine Gardasil has had a roller-coaster ride in China. A post-Covid surge in demand for the cancer-preventing shot quickly deflated last year, to the point the US ...

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The approval makes GARDASIL the first HPV vaccine approved for use in males in China. GARDASIL is now indicated in China to prevent anal cancers caused by HPV Types 16 and 18, genital warts ...

Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is giving away the fees that he could earn from litigation over Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil — to ...

During his time as a vaccine injury attorney, Kennedy launched complaints and lawsuits against Merck, the maker of Gardasil, which was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006.

Public health researchers and doctors said there was no evidence that the vaccine, Gardasil, was linked to the health problems he cited, noting 160 favorable studies on safety. A federal court ...