Nicole Brown Chau

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Nicole Brown Chau

The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities. The plans have not been finalized and might need congressional action to fully fund, the officials said, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Nicole Brown Chau |Kierra Frazier

Fact-checking RFK Jr. claims on HHS cuts With measles cases in more than 20 states across the U.S., doctors and health officials are urging anyone who hasn't received the MMR vaccine to get vaccinated. "To be very clear, the number one, number two, number three things we need to be doing are vaccinating kids and others who have not been vaccinated against measles.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Nicole Brown Chau

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now backing an additional measles vaccine shot for some travelers within the United States, multiple health officials tell CBS News, in response to record outbreaks of the highly contagious virus this year. In a letter shared with health departments on April 8, the CDC said it would now be recommending that visitors to areas affected by measles outbreaks within the United States follow stepped up vaccination guidance issued by local authorities.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Nicole Brown Chau

As President Trump announced a pause to his sweeping reciprocal tariffs Wednesday, his trade representative, Jamieson Greer, was in the middle of testifying at a House hearing on the administration's trade policy. Greer appeared to learn of the president's decision to pause the tariffs for 90 days the same time the public did, as he was sitting before members of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Trade. Asked when he was made aware of the pause by Rep.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Sara Moniuszko |Nicole Brown Chau

RFK Jr. on measles vaccine, government cuts In his first network TV interview since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about a range of topics, including measles, food additives and weight loss drugs.