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Tick bites are sending Americans to the emergency room at the highest rate in nearly a decade, according to new CDC data.

Jennifer Shuford, an infectious disease physician who oversaw the country’s largest measles outbreak in 30 years, is among a slate of CDC nominations with no apparent ties to the anti-vaccine movement ...

A doctor discusses what parents need to know to keep their kids safe amid the surge of Rotavirus cases across the U.S.

A CDC MMWR report described 23 Pittsburgh patients treated between October 2024 and March 2025 who developed severe autonomic ...

Schwartz holds multiple academic credentials, including both medical and law degrees. Her career has largely been spent in military uniform, including in a leadership position at the U.S. Coast Guard, ...

It’s never any fun feeling under the weather, but norovirus can be especially grueling. In fact, Thomas Russo, M.D., chief of ...

As one CDC employee, who asked not to be named, put it on Friday, among staff “the general vibe is guarded but hopeful.” ...

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

President Trump’s selection of a longtime civil servant and public health veteran to run the Centers for Disease Control and ...