CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words-- including "health equity," "race," "bias," and "disparity" -- in their annual performance evaluations;

A Texas measles outbreak has doubled in the last week to 124 cases, state health officials said Tuesday, a day after they warned a person infected with the highly contagious disease had traveled from the outbreak zone.

The first person reported to have died from measles in the U.S. in a decade, a "school-aged child" who perished overnight in a children's hospital in West Texas, was announced by health officials on Wednesday,