The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

In a statement, HHS said HICPAC was terminated because it was “unnecessary.” The CDC has terminated an advisory committee responsible for providing federal guidance on the prevention and ...

The CDC Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that bolsters the work of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laid off 32 people Thursday — adding to about 90 workers who lost ...

This whole generation of kids is damaged by chronic disease." Kennedy often cites the CDC's figures from this study as evidence for his claim that the U.S. is now seeing a growing "epidemic" of ...

Measles cases have been confirmed in at least 24 states, CDC data shows. The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and ...

The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is ...

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency ...

The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E. coli illnesses from contaminated ...

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There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment ...

He is former director of the CDC and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. The CDC cuts announced Tuesday threaten America’s health, safety, and economy. Despite claims of ...

ATLANTA — Former employees are rallying outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after layoffs on Tuesday. One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into ...