The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded its long-standing advice on universal hepatitis B vaccination of newborns. Under the new policy, parents of babies born to mothers ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its funding brutally cut and staff gutted, its mission sabotaged, and its ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say a Trump administration policy change is making it nearly impossible for agency staff with disabilities to access telework as a ...

For decades, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a yearly report tracking abortion trends across the country. But this year's report has been delayed until spring, ...

U.S. health officials have issued travel advisories for Americans planning trips to certain tropical countries amid outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne disease. The Centers for Disease Control ...

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 ...

Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than ...

A child gets immunized at a Florida pediatrician's office in September. Joe Raedle / Getty Images Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are ...

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 ...

A decades-old data set tracking the health of new moms and babies was disrupted by CDC layoffs last spring, and there are still unanswered questions about the program's future. A decades-old data set ...