CDC Director Mandy Cohen, a medical doctor, stepped down on Jan. 20 when Trump was inaugurated, as is customary.

The cuts slash the CDC's budget from nearly $9.2 billion in FY 2024 to $4.2 billion. At least 20%, or $1 billion, of the funding cut is moving to AHA. The cuts will have a trickle-down effect on ...

Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos on Tuesday stepped down as co-leader of a CDC work group that helps shape the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, and is ...

So far, the CDC's changes echo what the committee had already been considering voting on next month: narrowing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations to only older adults and younger ages with risk ...

The Covid-19 vaccine remains on the CDC's revised schedule of childhood vaccinations despite HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement.

Kennedy's move appears to shortcut the CDC's outside vaccine advisers, dropping COVID vaccines from the list recommended for children and pregnant women.

The CDC's investigation subsequently identified 566 lead-poisoned children across 44 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC, and helped get the tainted applesauce off shelves, Stat noted.

CDC Chief of Staff Matt Buzzelli is running the agency,” Nixon told STAT via email. When STAT pressed for confirmation that Buzzelli has been formally named acting director, Nixon again ...

He says it often feels like a family reunion – but not this time. Cuts reduce scientific staff "to the bone" A few miles up the street, by the main gates of the CDC campus, former employees have ...

The CDC has been the organizing force and a major funder for injury prevention for many years. "I do see it as a collapse in the field," says Rexing, "The development of the field.

Experts push back after RFK Jr. questions CDC autism data One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday ...

CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) continues to monitor and assist with gastrointestinal outbreaks and track and report these illnesses," the official said in a statement.