Cases may be dipping, but flu and other winter illnesses including norovirus, Covid and strep throat are closing schools in ...

Carlson is an infectious disease epidemiologist at Yale University. Kennedy is a public health communicator and worked at the CDC for more than six years. A week ago, on Aug. 8, a gunman attacked the ...

Despite revised CDC recommendations, Michigan health officials say they will continue recommending routine childhood ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health ...

New Jersey is breaking away from the federal Center for Disease Control's paired-down vaccine recommendations for children.

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Former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning that the nation's public health system is a, quote, "raging fire" under President Trump's health secretary. NPR's Vanessa ...

At approximately 4:50 p.m. on Friday, a gunman opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. The attack left bullet holes in office windows and claimed the ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the number of vaccines universally recommended for children.

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The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that its recommendations for childhood vaccines will not be ...