MELBOURNE, Fla. — Unlike President Trump’s picks to lead other health agencies who established their conservative bona fides during the Covid-19 pandemic, his choice to head the Centers for ...

The CDC is one of the agencies that operates under the umbrella of the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that President Donald Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead.

The CDC Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2025 James and Sarah Fries Prize for Improving Health and the Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. These prestigious awards recognize individ ...

In 2007, he unveiled legislation that would have transferred oversight of vaccine safety from the CDC to an independent agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Weldon also ...

Representatives for the White House, the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately reply to requests for comment. In recent years, LLS fellows have assisted with ...

New York — The nation's top public health agency is inviting about 180 employees back to work, about two weeks after laying them off. Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control ...

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 ...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee cancelled Weldon’s nomination hearing on Thursday, following the withdrawal. In the past, the CDC director has been appointed to lead ...

Take Dave Weldon's failed CDC nomination, for example ... his Senate confirmation hearing at 10 a.m. ET before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The news was first ...

The 2024-25 flu season was classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a "high" severity season overall and for all age groups, making it the first high severity season ...

according to the CDC. The rural west Texas county where the current outbreak is centered has an 82% MMR vaccination rate among kindergarteners, according to state health records. “The reason we ...

A new government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine, once called dangerous by Health and Human Services ... according to the CDC. Women in their 20s are the group most likely to have ...