A year after a shooting at the CDC, a half-dozen current and former staff who were on campus during the shooting or who dealt ...

The US Senate voted 51-44 on Wednesday to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Lockwood is executive vice president of USF Health and dean of the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine. Gallo is founding director of the USF Institute for Translational Virology ...

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention descended into turmoil this week after Health Secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted the agency’s director, Susan ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a leadership upheaval – and at the center is concerns about the agency's approach to vaccines and U.S. public health. The White House on ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 29: In this photo illustration, Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 (L) and ...

After sheltering under desks and behind barricaded doors while an anti-vaxx gunman sprayed more than 150 bullets into CDC headquarters, and then watching the agency’s newly appointed director get ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t appear to secure the support needed to take over the public health agency during a lengthy and often tense ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recast the vaccine safety section of its website on Wednesday to align with the view of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that childhood ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.