The annual event brings together scientists, epidemiologists, and public health professionals who have been on the front ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their ...

The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control ...

EpiAid is a CDC program providing a short-term loan of an officer from the public health agency’s Epidemic Intelligence ...

along with staff from the CDC's centers focused on chronic disease and drug overdoses. HHS had previously said that AHA would combine teams from several agencies, including the Substance Abuse and ...

The layoffs of federal health workers this month included elimination of the Center for Disease Control's Division ... causes us great concern. The CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders ran the ...

Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration. By Gina Kolata Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

The CDC is, overall, a very cost-effective institution ... is the fact that the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), or disease detective program, was cut. This globally renowned, two-year ...

Mr. Secretary, this is your roadmap. The CDC has hundreds of projects that have nothing to do with stopping infectious disease. Slash them and fortify the CDC to battle deadly contagions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the ... the case fatality rate of COVID-19 is 1.1%. In 2024, the CDC reported 4,514 cases of C. auris infection in patients of all ages ...