An international meeting to determine the status of measles elimination in the United States has been delayed seven months, from its original date in mid-April until sometime in November.

As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers ...

The US has recorded more than 1,100 measles cases so far this year, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a troubling milestone that has many in ...

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In mid-January, an unassuming man in khakis and a button-down shirt walked to a wooden lectern at a school board meeting in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Most chairs in the audience were empty.

More than half of U.S. states have reported at least one measles case this year and several large outbreaks are occurring. In South Carolina, at least 985 cases have been reported since October. The ...

Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry joins The Lead.

Fernando Viera Reyes needed a biopsy for possible prostate cancer when the Trump administration sent him to an immigration detention center in California’s Mojave Desert.

“Our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens,” President Donald Trump said on February 13, 2025, the day his nominee to run the nation’s health agencies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...