L.A. County Public Health director Barbara Ferrer discusses concerns over federal grants, what programs could be affected, ...

The layoffs of thousands of workers strike deeply at the agency's ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus, and ...

The CDC said in a statement on Monday that it does not believe the new coronavirus found in bats poses a concern to public ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter ...

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, a historic achievement in the world of public health. Now, it's ...

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to ...

The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

HKU5-CoV-2 has sparked concerns because it can spread to humans in a similar way to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic ...

President Trump’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are making life difficult for some public health officials, who view eliminating racial disparities as part of their mission.

In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Feb. 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been ...