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 ...

On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia. They are printouts of her ...

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.

In partnership with The Independent, Leslie Liang reports for The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates global ...

After a news conference in September 2025 in which President Trump told pregnant women to avoid Tylenol, its use dropped in ...

Prasad, who has been embroiled in recent controversial decisions at the Food and Drug Administration, will leave in late April. Separately, surgeon general nominee Casey Means is facing opposition on ...

Industry leaders and academics are concerned that decision-making input from agency leaders, drug developers, patients, and physicians has largely been cast aside during the Trump administration. Plus ...

On Dec. 10, 2025, Uganda entered into one of the most consequential health partnerships in its recent history. At the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Kampala, senior officials from Uganda and the ...

Measles makes a comeback In 2026, the U.S. has seen a surge in outbreaks of the highly contagious, yet vaccine-preventable ...

CDC deploys team South Carolina to analyze data and support response amid the state's largest measles outbreak since 2000.

Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.