A five-year effort to mark Missouri’s most notorious slave prison will come to fruition next month. The zoo will be reducing ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website with a new stance on the potential link between vaccines and autism. The new wording on the CDC’s site now states, "The claim ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has altered its website on autism and vaccines, removing ...

The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its webpage on autism and vaccines on Wednesday, stating a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has walked back its decades-old insistence that vaccines do not cause autism, updating its website late Wednesday to promote a debunked link ...

Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS. You can reach Chelsea on Signal at chelseacirruzzo.42. Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious ...

Nov 21 (Reuters) - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he personally instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its longstanding position that vaccines do ...

Norovirus cases have risen in the United States in recent weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 14% of tests for the illness came back positive during ...

The CDC has caused outrage from many in the medical community after changing its webpage on Wednesday to include language that links vaccines to autism, despite numerous studies showing that there’s ...

The Health and Human Services Department is proposing new initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including a program to increase hepatitis B screening for pregnant women, as ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to curb the spread of avian influenza—more commonly known as "bird ...