A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

Polio is not endemic in the United States, but the disease is circulating in 30 other countries now. A doctor explains how to protect against polio when traveling.

A U.S. vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for later this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not be held, with no new dates announced, according to a spokesman for ...

Gilmartin is the executive director of the Safe States Alliance. Last May, the White House released a budget request for FY2026 that proposed eliminating the CDC’s National Center for Injury ...

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The second in command at the Department of Health and Human Services is leaving his post as part of a shake-up in personnel ahead of the midterm elections. O’Neill has served as the lieutenant to HHS ...

In an exclusive interview, Jim O’Neill, who also leads the CDC, discusses vaccine schedules, dietary guidance—and being a longevity enthusiast. Following publication of this story, Politico reported ...

Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A study published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine confirmed what many clinicians had begun to suspect: ...

A group of exclusive sunny islands are on alert as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an urgent warning of a virus outbreak. The Seychelles, a group of islands in the ...

(NEXSTAR) – As one variant of the flu virus starts to decline, another is rising to take its place. Influenza A is still the most common type of flu circulating, but influenza B has risen for two ...