Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve U.S ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health ...

As former surgeons general of the United States, we are gravely concerned by the recent developments surrounding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The firing of the CDC director, the ...

Our country’s public health system is ailing. With layoffs and leadership changes at the CDC, changing vaccine guidelines, a government shutdown, and declining public trust—where do we go from here?

The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is part of a long history of efforts to fight death and disease with data – and it’s at risk. Over the weekend, 700 CDC staffers faced employment ...

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the CDC’s director and three other senior officials resigned in protest, public-health experts—including a former CDC director, a renowned vaccine expert, and at ...

Heavy cuts at the CDC threaten to upend Kentucky's public health infrastructure, as local officials describe confusion and uncertainty around the agency's guidance. Without stable support for public ...