• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just wrapped up the first day of a two-day meeting that could lead to a major change to the childhood ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

Editor's Note (10/15/25): On Wednesday a federal judge in California temporarily halted the September 10 layoffs of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco granted the ...

Former employees stepped up to create the National Public Health Coalition to advocate for public health after Trump’s cuts to the agency ...

Funding cuts and restructuring at the CDC reportedly have disrupted certain efforts related to infection prevention, control and disease monitoring. One such effort is Together TakeMeHome at Emory ...

• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, instead recommending individual ...

A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has delayed an upcoming meeting of its highly influential vaccine advisory committee. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that nearly 1 in 5 Americans have a sexually transmitted infection. The data comes from an analysis of information for 2018, ...

On Thursday, the CDC published a detailed history of the agency’s response to the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in the most recent edition of the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report ...

Men who have sex with men and others who are at high risk of mpox infection should get two doses of the Jynneos vaccine, even now that the recent public health emergency in the United States has ...

Three patients undergoing laser eye surgery at a New York City ophthalmology clinic developed Purpureocillium lilacinum ...