Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday labeled the increasing rates of autism in children an epidemic and said ...

The CDC's Division of Population Health was eliminated in its entirety in the Trump administration's mass layoffs at HHS, ...

Depression is becoming more common among adults and adolescents in the United States, but most are not getting therapy to ...

Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...

The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been a crucial tool in fighting diseases at home and abroad. Its impact would be ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding ...

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 tracks ...

The U.S. is experiencing an outbreak of measles and is on track to have the most whooping cough cases since 1948; these ...

Measles have continued to spread in Texas with a total of 561 reported cases. Gaines County, the center of the outbreak, saw ...

Measles would normally be expected to have a fatality rate of about one to three deaths out of every 1,000 children infected, the CDC says, so the number of deaths this year suggests there may be far ...

HHS Secretary RFK Jr., with help from DOGE, is planning a restructuring with sweeping cuts expected at multiple agencies.

The CDC has laid off hundreds of employees, affecting little known parts of the agency that help keep people alive.