Flu activity in the United States is rising sharply this season, and health officials warn that the situation may continue to get worse in the coming weeks. According to newly released data from the ...

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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

The panel may vote to change the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the ...

Dr. Ralph Abraham has been Louisiana's surgeon general since 2024. A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten, now suggesting without evidence that health authorities ...

The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its webpage on autism and vaccines on Wednesday, stating a ...

Daniel Payne reports on how the health industry and Washington influence and impact each other. He joined STAT in 2025 after covering health care at POLITICO. You can reach Daniel on Signal at danielp ...

Scientific information on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was replaced Wednesday with anti-vaccine talking points that don’t rule out a link between vaccines and autism, ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. In the latest bid to plug gaps in the federal government’s public ...