It's been a year of disruption and dismissals at the Atlanta-based CDC, where more than 3,000 public health workers are now gone. The Atlanta region continues to feel the ripple effects of the turmoil ...
Polio is not endemic in the United States, but the disease is circulating in 30 other countries now. A doctor explains how to ...
It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.
A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...
The prevalence of obesity and severe obesity markedly increased among adults and children in the US from the 1970s and 1980s until now.
The CDC issued a Level 2 travel advisory for 30 countries due to polio detection. Here's what travelers should know about vaccines and booster timing before trips.
United States overdose deaths in 2025 fell to levels similar to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdose deaths for the ...
Ticks are, unfortunately, a fact of life when experiencing the great outdoors, but these states are places where you don't ...
NEW YORK — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been without a permanent director since the removal of Susan Monarez in August. Its recently installed acting director, Jay Bhattacharya, is also ...
The shellfish were distributed to restaurants and food retailers in nine states, including Illinois, and could cause illness ...
Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now reject at least some federal vaccine guidance as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to de-emphasize the importance of ...