Former Stanford Medical School professor Jay Bhattacharya B.A. ’89 M.A. ’90 M.D. ’97 Ph.D. ’00 has been tapped to serve as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has historically been the pinnacle of U.S. public health. The agency has been a leading voice for evidence-backed health guidance and a sentinel for ...

An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely updated federal health surveillance systems had stopped or delayed updates in ...

Colorado will continue to require the hepatitis B vaccine for children in licensed childcare and K-12 schools. The CDC recently removed the hepatitis B vaccine from its list of recommended childhood ...

ST. LOUIS — The childhood vaccination schedule now has a new look after the CDC reduced the recommended vaccines from 17 to 11. It's a move supporters say more closely aligns healthcare in the United ...

Even after nearly a year of worrisome moves by federal public health officials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's stunning decision to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine ...

Influenza cases are rising sharply, heightening fears that a new strain will fuel a punishing flu season that is already outpacing last year’s. The flu has sickened an estimated 7.5 million people so ...

Across the country, communities have pushed back against data centers planned for their cities and states. Some have even turned to online petition sites to raise awareness and voice collective ...

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 CDC on Tuesday evening formally adopted a change in the newborn vaccine schedule that doesn't recommend all babies born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis b get the shot against the virus.