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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to end its monkey research program will affect studies involving some 200 macaques, and the fate of the animals is unclear ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that the agency approved the dialed-back recommendations on Covid-19 shots from its vaccine advisory panel. Accessing the Covid booster ...

Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees without input from relevant agency staffers.

Who should get COVID shots this fall? And should all babies get vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth? These are two of the questions that an influential federal vaccine advisory group, the Advisory ...

Before they were fired, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were about to launch a new data system to improve how the U.S. tracks concussions. They were planning to release updated ...