The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and its potential links with vaccines, a source familiar with the CDC’s planning said.

“The president is a busy man doing good work for our nation, and the last thing he needs is a controversy about CDC.” A spokesperson for Cassidy denied that Cassidy asked the administration to ...

A new search tool unveiled Friday increases public access to information about the connections between advisors to the ...

Matt Gaetz was Donald Trump’s first personnel fiasco, but not last. Take Dave Weldon's failed CDC nomination, for example. By Steve Benen UPDATE (March 19, 2025, 5:11 p.m. ET): This post has ...

The layoffs at the CDC partly involved new hires and probationary employees who were in the first three years of employment with the agency. Similar layoffs hit the Food and Drug Administration ...

A former Florida congressman, Weldon also has been a prominent critic of vaccines and the CDC, which promotes vaccines and monitors their safety. Sen. Patty Murray said she had serious concerns ...

As President Donald Trump’s plan to reshape the government reaches the Supreme Court in its first major test, hundreds of CDC employees and 400 at the Department of Homeland Security were laid ...

Multiple outlets reported that a larger sister program at CDC called the Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS, known as the agency’s “disease detectives,” was expected to be cut ...

The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. That was far from its only purpose. Local and state officials said ...

The U.S. CDC plans to embark on a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a rise in severe and even deadly flu cases. Officials are now saying that it is the worst flu season in years. NBC’s Maggie ...

(The Hill) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a page on Friday listing the conflicts of interest reported by members of a key vaccine advisory committee. Health ...