Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ...

The first two meetings of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remade CDC vaccine advisory panel were marked by technical ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

Fired members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have given their replacements a failing grade.

Nearly 1,650 cases of measles in 42 states have been confirmed this year in the United States by the Centers for Disease ...

Even at a time of unprecedented challenges to the work of public health, there is room for optimism, says former CDC Director ...

Pledging communication about vaccines that will be “grounded in science, not ideology,” the governors of California, Washington and Oregon announced Wednesday they will form a West Coast Health ...

NEW YORK — The director of the nation's top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned. Susan Monarez isn't "aligned with" ...

Heavy cuts at the CDC ... evidence," USA TODAY reported. Jim O'Neill, an investor with ties to billionaire Trump ally Peter Thiel, is now serving as acting director of the agency. Sudden changes at ...

Carlson is an infectious disease epidemiologist at Yale University. Kennedy is a public health communicator and worked at the CDC for more than six years. A week ago, on Aug. 8, a gunman attacked the ...