The Trump administration appears to be expanding RSV vaccinations to some adults starting at age 50, down from 60, following ...

Respiratory syncytial virus is common but it can be dangerous for some infants and young kids. Here's everything parents need ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump took office, multiple government webpages referencing gender and sexual orientation ...

After Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, Kentucky has not joined the list of US states to declare a measles outbreak, which as ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

As a new COVID-19 variant takes over in the U.S., guidance surrounding vaccines has become increasingly confusing. Changes in vaccination guidelines, ever-evolving variants and strains, along with ...

CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...

Chronic disease prevention The latest budget request would eliminate the CDC's Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, for which $1.4 billion was appropriated in FY 2024.

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that kids with no underlying health conditions "may receive" COVID-19 vaccines, dropping a broad recommendation for all children to get ...

Dr. Anne Schuchat, former acting director at CDC, gives a lecture at a conference celebrating the work of the agency's disease detectives in April, 2025.