In 2023, Congress passed a law to ensure that an incoming CDC director is confirmed by the Senate. The incoming agency director under Trump will be the first official to go through the ...

If confirmed, Kennedy will have greater control over the CDC, but just how much? Tom Frieden served as Director of the CDC during the Obama Administration. He’s now the President and CEO of the ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

The CDC director can’t ban vaccines. But the Secretary of Health and Human Services can hire (or replace) ACIP committee members, which may lead to new sets of CDC recommendations, particularly ...

The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ...

Robert Redfield, who led the CDC during Trump's first term, said "it's possible" that U.S. intelligence agencies were helping create viruses in a Wuhan lab.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients ...

Redfield, Trump’s former CDC director, has endorsed Kennedy as the “right man for the job” to address chronic childhood ...

The CDC on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu ...

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track ...