Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Maine's former top public health official has left a high-level federal post. Dr. Nirav Shah served as principal deputy director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for roughly two ...

"This seems like the worst time to be taking steps to degrade our nation's preparedness," says Dr. David Fleming, a former ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

Texas is experiencing a measles outbreak driven by unvaccinated people and the U.S. is facing a growing threat from bird flu, ...

Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director under President Barack Obama and the current president and CEO of the health advocacy organization Resolve to Save Lives, says the staffing cuts at federal ...

He is the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Trump administration reportedly plans to eliminate two essential CDC training programs, a decision that would ...

Two divisions within CMS have been hit especially hard: the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Center for ...

However, if the CDC director signs off on the panel’s recommendations, ACIP-recommended vaccines must be covered by health insurance. ACIP members aren’t government employees. The panel ...

“This is incredibly disturbing,” said Rachel Hardeman, a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC. On Feb. 10, Hardeman and other committee members wrote to acting CDC ...

I am writing to you as the person President Donald Trump has selected to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With years of service as a physician and having represented a Florida ...