Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is demanding to know how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to comply with ...

The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E. coli illnesses from contaminated ...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral ...

Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping cuts to the nation's public health agencies. Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help local ...

“This is unprecedented, both in the scale and scope of destruction of CDC, and unprecedented in the secret manner in which it’s been being carried out,” said Fleming, a public health ...

Kennedy Jr. said Monday he plans to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending the addition of fluoride in water, while also putting together a task force 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 ...

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp.

"We do believe that there's quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported," said Dr. David Sugerman, senior scientist for the CDC's measles response this year. Sugerman's ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal ...

These labs perform advanced disease testing and analysis on hepatitis to understand how it spreads, as well as track infections like chlamydia, syphilis, and gonorrhea. HealthDay News — Key labs ...

PROTECTION WANES OVER TIME. OBVIOUSLY, LAST YEAR, THE CDC RECOMMENDED A SPRING BOOSTER FOR OLDER ADULTS. WHAT ABOUT THIS YEAR? THE RECOMMENDATION HAS STAYED. SO BASICALLY, IF YOU’RE ELDERLY ...