It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

NEW YORK — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated ...

It's been a year of disruption and dismissals at the Atlanta-based CDC, where more than 3,000 public health workers are now gone. The Atlanta region continues to feel the ripple effects of the turmoil ...

A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

The CDC issued a Level 2 travel advisory for 30 countries due to polio detection. Here's what travelers should know about vaccines and booster timing before trips.

There is no replacement for reliable data from federal government databases. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a ...

There are big issues in the deals the United States is pursuing with African countries that govern how U.S. global health funding will work from now on, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease ...

Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super Bowl ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --The Trump administration announced Wednesday it created new dietary guidelines and created a new food pyramid. "Under President Trump's leadership common sense, scientific integrity and ...

NEW YORK — 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 number of ...

The recent award of a $1.6 million unsolicited, single-source grant to the Bandim Health Project for a clinical trial in the impoverished West African country of Guinea-Bissau marks a significant ...

President Donald Trump on Friday night celebrated a recent vaccine advisory panel's decision to change guidance for hepatitis B vaccinations, declaring that the move was a "very good decision." The ...