Working to help officials manage future public health emergencies, Carnegie Mellon University researchers want to forecast infectious disease outbreaks like meteorologists predict the weather. “Delphi ...

Get live updates and the latest news as NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya testifies on Capitol Hill and the Senate considers a ...

Earlier this month, the Washington Post broke the news that Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, the CDC's temporary top official, delayed and then blocked a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness paper from appearing ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CBS News that the hantavirus ...

U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the Covid-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital. Subscribe to read this story ...

The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blocked the publication of a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

Massachusetts Commissioner of the Department of Public Health Dr. Robbie Goldstein joined GBH’s Morning Edition to talk about the latest news out of the Centers for Disease Control — including the ...

NEW YORK — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blocking the publication of a study that showed vaccines for COVID-19 nearly cut in half the chances an adult in the U.S. would ...

RIDGELAND — Social media posts coming out of Jasper County during the afternoon of May 6 look like they belong back in 2020 or 2021. One post from Keith Horton, the county’s clerk of court, stated ...

No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No televised news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in recent months stopped publication of studies about the safety of COVID-19 and shingles vaccines, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human ...