This essay examines how recent political intervention has reshaped the CDC’s public messaging on vaccines and autism. In Part ...
In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift ...
More than 4 in 10 U.S. adults have obesity, putting them at risk of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers. And 9.4% of adults have severe ...
Sen. Bill Cassidy urges the CDC to reject new hepatitis B vaccine guidance for newborns, calling the proposed change "a ...
A vaccine advisory committee handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to vote on hepatitis B vaccinations ...
We're all going to die someday. Still, how it happens—and when—can point to a historical moment defined by the scientific ...
America's natural-born population could edge toward extinction in just 500 years, startling new data suggests. Not taking into account immigration or major changes in death rates, statisticians ...
The CDC is sounding the alarm about a dangerous new superbug known as NDM-CRE, which the agency says is resistant to even the strongest antibiotics. Between 2019 and 2023, cases of the superbug jumped ...
A total of 49,449 Americans died by suicide in 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. This is a 2.6% increase from 48,183 in 2021 and the highest number ever recorded, ...