Six major medical groups—and a pregnant woman—are taking health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to court, alleging that ...

The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.

What Trump winning the election could mean for the CDC. Conservatives in Congress and Washington think tanks have proposed eliminating CDC programs they say are not central to fighting infectious ...

New CDC guidance calls for looser standards on testing and isolation for covid-19. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) ...

The Washington Post reviewed internal documents and interviewed more than 30 government scientists and others with knowledge of the events to ... The CDC took 46 days to roll out a working test as ...

On Monday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention edited its Web page describing how the novel coronavirus spreads, removing recently added language saying it was “possible ...

Mandy Cohen is tasked with restoring credibility to the once-vaunted agency at a time of extreme political divisions and fading trust in government — and science.

The CDC also plans to hire at least another 650 people as experts to “substantially augment” public health personnel in the states and assist with contact tracing, among other tasks, he said.

Discover how CDC grant cuts have derailed Washington's Caravan Program, impacting vaccination and public health efforts statewide. Join Rachel Sims and Lacey Karenbach as they unpack the ...

CDC officials said protecting vulnerable people was a top priority while revising the guidance, and they believe that the new approach will help if it means more people stay home while sick with ...

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material. Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their ...

Roughly 100 scientists will analyze data and communicate policy options to decision-makers and the public about how the virus is behaving and who is most at risk — in user-friendly terms.