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The CDC’s restricted communication under HHS oversight has hindered public awareness amid rising global disease outbreaks like dengue, measles, and hepatitis, posing serious risks to U.S. and global health.

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said, averting a feared halving of the highly selective fellowship.

Before they were fired, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were about ... Entire teams based at the CDC's injury center that focused on motor vehicle crashes, child ...

"The American people expect high quality research and transparency." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing ...

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was rocked by five ... at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices the heads of five of them ...