A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system’s ability to ...

Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else ...

The former Maine CDC director has led recent polling on the Democratic primary after becoming the public face of the state’s ...

A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bay District Schools saw a drop in third-grade literacy rates following the pandemic; those rates are now increasing ...

More than 150 passengers and crew members on a Princess cruise ship fell ill last week due to an outbreak of norovirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

With fall, and by extension, respiratory illness season, underway, COVID-19 cases have continued to fluctuate nationwide. Some regions of the United States are experiencing "very high" and "high" ...

COVID-19 cases remained relatively steady week-over-week in late August, though data from states showed "very high" viral activity at the end of the month, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

It's been a year of disruption and dismissals at the Atlanta-based CDC, where more than 3,000 public health workers are now gone. The Atlanta region continues to feel the ripple effects of the turmoil ...