A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on thimerosal ...

The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is considering allowing nurse practitioners and physician assistants to read some images. If passed, the allowance would certify ...

Ticks are tiny, hard to kill, and they carry devastating diseases. To get people to understand how scary that is and how hard they can be to spot, the CDC recently tweeted a terrifying image of a ...

The CDC signed off on boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds following the independent vaccine advisers recommendation that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine provided more benefit than harm, which the ...

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has tapped Mary Wakefield to help “reset” the agency after its public failures handling the covid pandemic. Those who know Wakefield say her high standards ...

A newly obtained internal CDC document offers previously unknown detail about the transmissibility and risk of the delta variant—including that it may be spread just as easily by the vaccinated.

People 65 and older should get an additional dose of the current Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children, days after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid ...

Most Covid-19 infections are spread by people who have no symptoms, the CDC says in newly updated guidance. Ad Feedback. Health. Life, But ... Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images.

At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency scientists who normally generate and interpret data to inform this ...

Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare but serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States.