In a statement, HHS said HICPAC was terminated because it was “unnecessary.” The CDC has terminated an advisory committee responsible for providing federal guidance on the prevention and ...

Dr. Patrick Sullivan, the project's lead scientist and professor of epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, said he was told the cancellation is because the CDC does ...

The CDC Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that bolsters the work of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laid off 32 people Thursday — adding to about 90 workers who lost ...

Instead of the agency's longstanding "universal" recommendation, most of the CDC's advisers and health officials favor shifting to guidance based on people's individual risk of more severe disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) vaccine advisory committee ... CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Members of the committee will vote on Wednesday on recommendations ...

The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is ...

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency ...

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The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E. coli illnesses from contaminated ...

The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today. Hundreds of people who worked for the office have ...

He is former director of the CDC and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department. The CDC cuts announced Tuesday threaten America’s health, safety, and economy. Despite claims of ...

ATLANTA — Former employees are rallying outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after layoffs on Tuesday. One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into ...