Jim O’Neill was deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services and also acting director of the CDC after the abrupt ouster of Susan Monarez in August 2025. Jim O’Neill, deputy ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

A group of exclusive sunny islands are on alert as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an urgent warning of a virus outbreak. The Seychelles, a group of islands in the ...

Cook Children’s Health Care System will not adopt the vaccine guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month, instead recommending that children follow the ...

On Jan. 7, Dartmouth Health rejected the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s new childhood vaccine guidelines in favor of the vaccine schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The CDC recently reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 diseases to 11. This decision was made after comparing U.S. policy with that of 20 other countries, ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Local doctors are responding to the new childhood vaccine guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week. Some say the new guidelines are ...

Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii will follow vaccine recommendations from a leading medical group instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the federal health agency on ...