Sponsor Message Public health workers feel demoralized, and say the sweeping cuts, made with seemingly little consideration for how the CDC operates, have decreased the nation's ability to track ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

Dr. Patrick Sullivan, the project's lead scientist and professor of epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, said he was told the cancellation is because the CDC does ...

On Day 3 of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Houston Texans joined a growing list of NFL teams in a powerful show of solidarity and love, honoring the life and legacy of Coral Terpening — the late wife ...

And after seeing what we did, I'm glad we did," Dylan Neu, who had led the CDC's ventilation assessments in Texas, told CBS News. Neu is a biomedical engineer for the CDC's National Institute of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) vaccine advisory committee will meet on Tuesday for a two-day session to lay out new recommendations, including a proposal to scale back ...

When they stop, calls go back down. The CDC estimates that in the first five years of the campaign alone, an estimated 1 million Americans quit smoking, preventing 129,100 premature deaths.

Measles cases have been confirmed in at least 24 states, CDC data shows. The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and ...

The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is ...

In addition to the blood disorders division, Kennedy's layoffs wiped out the entire leadership team atop CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities that housed it.

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 ...

While she is new to the CDC, she is an accomplished public servant, having worked in several other agencies over the course of her career. After having already cut nearly 10% of the CDC’s ...