In the six months since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office as health secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has withered, losing thousands of employees, about half of its budget and ...

Waiting rooms are filling up across the United States as a fast-moving flu wave strains clinics and hospitals, driven largely by a drifted H3N2 variant that is spreading widely despite months of ...

Federal shutdown pauses CDC disease dashboards and analysis States must rely on their own data to spot outbreaks Experts warn gaps could delay response to COVID-19, flu, and RSV Wastewater ...

Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data - ‘The consequences will be ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it's unclear if it will be as bad as last winter's, but some health experts are worried as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The overall drug overdose death rate in urban and rural U.S. counties nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2017, according to new CDC data reported by STAT. The CDC based its data on the National Vital ...

Two U.S. representatives wrote a letter asking the CDC to release information on long-term COVID-19 that includes data on race, gender and age, The Washington Post reported Jan. 25. The CDC tracks ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking abortion trends for decades, but this year’s report — including some of the earliest federal data reflecting the effect of ...