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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Childhood vaccination rates have been falling in the United States, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 ...

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

The fertility rate last year – 54.6 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age – increased less than 1% from the record ...