State-level public health workers with knowledge of the YRBSS process told STAT they’d heard the CDC will not support data aggregation on the question if states choose to include them in their ...

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 ...

Susan Court, former YRBS state coordinator and health enhancement specialist at the Montana Office of Public Instruction, explains the importance of CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...