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 ...

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

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 ...

As of Feb. 27, the CDC has reported 164 measles cases across nine states: Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas. Three outbreaks, defined ...

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...

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 ...

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.

The Trump administration is stepping in to help Texas respond to the deadly and highly contagious respiratory virus.