Close to half of the CDC surveillance databases which were previously updated monthly were then paused as of 2025.

After a record week of flu activity in the US, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise. About 40,000 people were admitted to the hospital with flu during the week ending January 3, according to ...

Washington — The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention on Monday announced updated recommendations for childhood vaccines with some significant changes. The new guidelines recommend fewer shots ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday a major overhaul of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, reducing the number of routine immunizations recommended for children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending giving all infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth, approving a sweeping and highly ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Monday he is hiring two former top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who were pushed out by Health and Human Services ...

In a chaotic meeting Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired in June and replaced with a group that has largely ...

The CDC issued health warnings for India and Haiti after travelers from those countries were diagnosed with rabies. Travelers are advised to avoid contact with dogs, cats, and wild mammals in both ...

Daskalakis is the former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and is principal at Dr Demetre Consulting. Jernigan is the former director of the CDC’s ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...