The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for ...

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for ...

The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy ...

For Feedback Friday on “Closer Look,” host Rose Scott was joined by Atlanta-based internist Dr. Dhaval Desai. He discussed ...

The U.S. has recorded 105 more measles cases than the previous week, bringing the total for 2025 to 712 confirmed cases.

Aortic dissection has long been considered a rare, unpreventable and inevitably fatal disease. However, recent advances now prove otherwise. The patient-led Think Aorta campaign is challenging old ...

Two sites that already function as needle exchange clinics — in Washington Heights and in East Harlem — opened as so-called Overdose Prevention Centers on Tuesday. That day, at least five ...

The FDA approved Moderna’s lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine, but only for individuals aged 65 years or older and people aged 12 to 64 years at high risk for severe disease, aligning with the agency ...

This special series of commentaries, interviews, and slideshows is part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. This content is designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to ...