Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

Notes from a recent meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ COVID-19 Work Group show health ...

The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or ...

The Health and Human Services secretary defended his claims about children with autism that drew backlash last week, saying ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding ...

About 1 in every 31 children was diagnosed with autism by age 8 in 2022, up from 1 in 36 in 2020, according to the CDC report ...

Injury is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45. But much of the staff at the CDC responsible for studying how to track and prevent injuries were cut during the recent firings.

RFK Jr. and autism experts are at odds over the root cause of autism, as the Department of Health and Human Services launches ...

RFK Jr. has promised to find the "cause" of the "autism epidemic" by September. Many people in the autism community are offended by his rhetoric.

Instead of the agency's longstanding "universal" recommendation, most of the CDC's advisers and health officials favor shifting to guidance based on people's individual risk of more severe disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came under fire for his claims about autism in his first press conference as Trump's secretary of ...