In 2010, a small city nestled between the Rocky Mountains and Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho voted to stop adding fluoride ...

A listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat products from Fresh & Ready Foods, has put at least 10 people in the hospital in the US states of California and Nevada ...

U.S. health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people.

A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns ...

A group of more than a dozen Democratic senators is asking the Trump administration to rehire a team of scientists at the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff members are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public ...

The infant mortality national rate dropped to about 5.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted Thursday.

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines ...

The CDC has lost thousands of workers since January. At a conference celebrating the work of the agency's "disease detectives," current and former staff grappled with uncertainty about the future.

Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three ...

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of ...