For the first time in nearly a year, the nation’s top public health agency has a permanent leader.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reeled from the ousting of its director, three senior leaders who resigned in protest told The Washington Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image from video provided by the Department of Health and Human Services shows Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking alongside Food and Drug ...

“What makes CDC great are the people that make CDC up, the scientists, everyone that makes this a family. And it’s a family that defends our country and the health of our children and the health of adults, whether it’s because of vaccines, whether it’s preventing overdose, chronic disease, stopping Ebola at its source rather than when it came to this continent,” Daskalakis told the ...

Staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been told to stop communication with the World Health Organization (WHO), in the wake of President Donald Trump's order withdrawing from the health agency. The memo was sent late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. (Miguel Martinez/AP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to contradict the long ...