The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and its potential links with vaccines, a source familiar with the CDC’s planning said.

“The president is a busy man doing good work for our nation, and the last thing he needs is a controversy about CDC.” A spokesperson for Cassidy denied that Cassidy asked the administration to ...

A sign with the CDC logo is displayed at the entrance to the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) The Trump ...

UPDATE (March 19, 2025, 5:11 p.m. ET): This post has been updated with additional details. In Donald Trump’s second term, his first humiliating personnel fiasco came early on: He chose former ...

It is in that vein I call out my friends at the FDA and CDC for closing a romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 case without supplying the public – who they are supposed to serve – with information ...

The first meeting of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has been ...

“The Department of Health and Human Services’ assistant secretary for public affairs informed the CDC that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted advertisements that promote the idea of ...

The layoffs at the CDC partly involved new hires and probationary employees who were in the first three years of employment with the agency. Similar layoffs hit the Food and Drug Administration ...

A former Florida congressman, Weldon also has been a prominent critic of vaccines and the CDC, which promotes vaccines and monitors their safety. Sen. Patty Murray said she had serious concerns ...

The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. That was far from its only purpose. Local and state officials said ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a rise in severe and even deadly flu cases. Officials are now saying that it is the worst flu season in years. NBC’s Maggie ...

The U.S. CDC plans to embark on a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such ...