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 ...

A handful of committee members said the CDC delivered the news about HICPAC’s termination to members Friday, NBC reported. The termination took effect more than a month previously, on March 31 ...

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 ...

Less than half of Americans believe federal health agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can do key parts of their job ...

The CDC report didn’t mention how many children who died had been vaccinated, if any. Other possible factors, according to O’Leary, include understaffed pediatricians’ offices, fewer ...

The CDC Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that bolsters the work of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laid off 32 people Thursday — adding to about 90 workers who lost ...

Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of culture and politics in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has lived in Turkey for nearly ...

It's the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic. The CDC estimated overall at least 47 million illnesses, 610,000 hospitalizations and 26,000 deaths from flu so far this season.

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 ...

People got sick in February and March of this year, the CDC said. They all had the same strain of salmonella — a version that has been traced to hatcheries in the past. The investigation is ...

In a statement, HHS said HICPAC was terminated because it was “unnecessary.” The CDC has terminated an advisory committee responsible for providing federal guidance on the prevention and ...

Private hot tubs in cruise ship staterooms were found to be the source of disease outbreak by the CDC. Katie Nadworny is an Istanbul-based writer who specializes in stories at the intersection of ...