Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced a new California-led public health initiative, tapping former U.S. Centers for Disease ...

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The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...

A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle - at higher risk of developing heart failure, which can be fatal, according to a study ...

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

Advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted 8-3 Friday to recommend that a mother without Hepatitis ...

Shingles and chicken pox are caused by the same virus, herpes zoster. After a chicken pox infection, the virus hides in some ...

In a chaotic meeting Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to delay a vote on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on ...

Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Ralph Abraham, a top health official in Louisiana ...

Louisiana’s surgeon general and former House member Ralph Abraham will assume the No. 2 position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a department spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Abraham ...