The meeting included a discussion of thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and long-time target of the anti-vaccine world.

ATLANTA — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under ...

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...

A new COVID variant called NB.1.8.1, aka Nimbus, is spreading in the U.S. and causing an incredibly painful sore throat, ...

“The old COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy children under 18 and for pregnant women have been removed from the CDC vaccine schedule,” a HHS spokesperson said in a statement.

The nation's top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Trump administration is considering killing some panels of outside experts that advise the CDC on key health threats like HIV and avian flu, according to an email seen by POLITICO.

The CDC said a person in Louisiana has become the first to be hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu. The CDC said the patient got bird flu from a backyard flock of birds, but said the risk ...

Which jobs were cut at CDC? Here’s a list. The Trump administration wants the agency to focus on infectious disease. Other areas of public health were hit hardest.

The CDC was alerted after a passenger fell ill on a domestic flight ... Pilot killed in Beverly plane crash identified as 30-year-old Melrose man ... Boston.com Newsletter Signup Boston.com Logo.

People 6 months old and older should update their COVID-19 and flu shots this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The unanimous vote by a CDC advisory panel ...

The CDC is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and widely debunked links between vaccines and autism. ... One 6-year-old died in Texas last week, ...