Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...

The Oak Park Public Health department thought that it had lost federal funding sponsoring a staff member’s place in the ...

The former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for stronger, nationwide guidance on ...

A month into his role as health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s moves on vaccines have worried health ...

As outbreaks for several diseases are being monitored across the U.S., state DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein has an update on the ongoing public health initiatives in Massachusetts.

Former Florida congressmen Dr. Dave Weldon was nominated to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The CDC plans to conduct an extensive study researching the connection between autism and vaccines. The move comes as Secretary of Human and Health Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and CDC Director ...

In a meeting last month, he reportedly told one senator that routine childhood vaccines were exposing kids to dangerous ...

The White House abruptly withdrew Dr. Dave Weldon's nomination to lead the CDC, canceling his confirmation hearing.

Weldon was told Wednesday night that his nomination was being withdrawn, another Trump administration official said. The ...