America’s first line of defense against public-health threats is hanging in the balance.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.

Editors’ note: As of Monday, Feb. 17, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service program who had been warned they were to be fired had not received termination letters. The Trump ...

Nash is a distinguished professor of epidemiology at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health. Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to reverse plans for ...

On February 13, the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services in a narrow 52-48 vote.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on the ground in Texas to aid the state in tamping down a measles ...

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on ...

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ...

According to the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Rule §97.7, schools and childcare settings shall exclude unimmunized ...

Many members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, EIS—a globally revered public health training program—were informed earlier Friday that they were about to be fired, according to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention March 4 announced it sent agency experts to Texas to assist local officials in responding to the state’s measles outbreak.

But the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service — the “disease detectives” who track outbreaks around the world — has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni ...