Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

Such a change would put the U.S. more in line with guidance in other countries and with the World Health Organization, which ...

Changes could be coming later this year to vaccination policies for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met last week ...

Shira Doron, MD, MS, is an infectious diseases physician at Tufts Medical Center and the Chief Infection Control Officer for the Tufts Medicine health system. Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an infectious ...

The U.S. fertility rate grew by less than 1% -- close to a record low -- as 3,622,673 babies were born in 2024, according to ...

Brianna Abbott is a health reporter covering the treatment and prevention of disease, with a special focus on cancer, in The ...

T he most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an increase in diagnoses of autism ...

Over the next four months, the Vaccine Integrity Project will hold information-gathering sessions with medical associations, ...

CDC director on new COVID guidance ending 5-day isolation The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its COVID guidance for when people need to isolate, return to school or work ...

Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem ...

Some key public health figures are taking an extraordinary step to try to shore up U.S. vaccination policy, feared to be ...

A team of health experts is launching an independent project that could start its own vaccine evaluation and guidelines — ...