The CDC announced on Monday it is changing the childhood immunization schedule, removing the universal recommendation for multiple shots.

A day after nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actions at the agency are “unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” he pushed back in a Wall Street ...

ATLANTA (AP) — CDC researchers are being forced to skip a pivotal conference on infectious disease this week due to the government shutdown, missing out on high-level discussions not long after surges in measles and whooping cough hit the U.S. US Coast ...

NEW YORK — The director of the nation's top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned. Susan Monarez isn't "aligned with" President Donald Trump's agenda and refused to resign ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted a grim picture of STI surveillance in the wake of the ...

Experts, however, say this is because the flu shot takes months to make, and the new variant emerged long after the shot was produced. Even without a perfect match, they say the vaccine offers important protection against serious complications.

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for ...

Jeanne Marrazzo, M.D., the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was fired from her position three weeks after filing a whistleblower complaint, according to an Oct ...