Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook speaks at length with former CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky about the ...

Dr. Daniel Jernigan was the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. He had worked at ...

Doctors say the controversial vote to not recommend the vaccine for all newborns is creating chaos and hurdles for parents.

Multiple states and major medical societies say they will continue to universally recommend hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in a break with newly revised guidance from the CDC’s Advisory ...

Tom Frieden called on health care professionals to ignore the new recommendation from the "unscientific group of people." ...

"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act." ...

A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). With no permanent director of the CDC, Dr. Ralph Abraham, ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended firing the director of the CDC as he faced a grilling from Democrats in a Senate hearing on ...

The panel’s advice, forwarded to the CDC director for final approval — now an acting director following the White House’s ...

Ralph Abraham, the Louisiana Surgeon General, has been named to the No. 2 job at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, long skeptical of vaccines, is named CDC deputy director after rolling back state vaccine programs and policies.