This essay is the second in a two-part series examining the CDC’s revised autism–vaccine messaging and the broader politicization of CDC science. While Part 1 focused on the November 19, 2025 change ...

Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than ...

The Department of Heath and Human Services has been leaning into the use of artificial intelligence to drive better health outcomes for the American public, highlighted by the rollout of ChatGPT ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a ...

Every four to eight years, career scientists within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) see priorities and initiatives change as new presidential administrations take office.

The dust is still settling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a mass layoff on Friday, which former employees at the beleaguered agency are describing as a massacre. In separate ...

The CDC’s vaccine panel voted in September on new guidance for immunizations. Debra Houry, the agency’s former chief medical officer, explained her concerns for public health in the U.S. Photo ...

Frieden is president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A dangerous idea is on the table: ending universal hepatitis B birth-dose ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Infection rates in the U.S. have surged because of a drug-resistant “super bug,” according to the CDC Medical ...

A union representing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers is accusing the federal agency of jeopardizing accommodations for its disabled employees by ending remote work. In January, the ...

It was early 2025, and a disease that had been declared eradicated in the US a quarter-century earlier was spreading rapidly among unvaccinated children in West Texas. As measles breached Gaines ...