U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients ...

A virologist, he was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... its mission on its primary function: to detect, control, combat, and prevent communicable diseases.

Marty Makary had his first television interview since Trump's Make America Healthy Again Commission released its assessment on childhood chronic diseases.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, carotid artery disease is responsible for up to one-third of all strokes. And 3% of adults over the age ...

Prolonged care, degraded MEDEVAC capability and overstretched lines of communication during large-scale combat operations could increase the prevalence of disease-related injury and death among ...

A new outbreak report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention tracked 224 of 2,538 passengers who became ill from the virus while on board the Cunard cruise line ship Queen Mary 2 ...

As of April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shut down its Maternal and Child Health Branch, which works with other countries to ensure that mothers and children at risk of or ...

This week it was announced that there would be massive cuts at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC is, overall, a very cost-effective institution. For every dollar CDC ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is asking the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an agencywide “scientific process” on ...

CWD spreads between animals through contact with saliva, blood, urine or feces from an animal with CWD, according to the Centers of Disease Control. Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves ...

According to the Center of Disease Control, one in five people will get the disease in their lifetime. One Nebraska City man is using his own fight with the disease to warn others to be cautious ...

New collaborative research has shown that using a fan in hot and humid weather reduces cardiac strain in older people, contradicting recommendations from the Centers of Disease Control and ...