CDC

• U.S. panel revises childhood vaccine schedule for combined MMRV shot

  The CDC advisory group recommended against allowing parents to choose the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before age four.

  Health

  Sep 18, 2025
  
• 5 takeaways from RFK Jr.’s contentious hearing before Senate lawmakers

  The oversight hearing was a chance for senators to seek answers from Kennedy on recent high-profile departures at the CDC.

  U.S. News

  Sep 5, 2025
  
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• CDC gets new acting director as leadership turmoil leaves agency reeling

  Jim O’Neill, the second-in-command at RFK Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services, is supplanting Susan Monarez.

  U.S. News

  Aug 29, 2025
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• White House fires CDC director Susan Monarez after she refuses to resign

  At least four top CDC officials have resigned this week, including Dr. Debra Houry, the agency's deputy director.

  U.S. News

  Aug 28, 2025
• CDC shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression; union demands statement against misinformation

  A union representing workers at the CDC said the shooting was not random and “compounds months of mistreatment, neglect, and vilification that CDC staff have endured."

  Crime

  Aug 10, 2025
• Suspect in deadly shooting at Atlanta’s CDC identified

  “This evening, there is a wife without a husband. There are three children, one unborn, without a father,” DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said.

  U.S. News

  Aug 9, 2025
• U.S. says more children died this flu season than in the past 15 years

  The 216 pediatric deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eclipse the 207 reported last year and is the most since the 2009-10 swine flu pandemic.

  Health

  May 2, 2025
• U.S. CDC told to stop working with WHO ahead of formal withdrawal

  Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa.

  Health

  Jan 27, 2025
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• CDC says bird flu likely mutated within Louisiana patient. What this means

  Scientists believe the mutations may allow the virus to better bind to receptors in the upper airways of humans — something they say is concerning but not a cause for alarm.

  Health

  Dec 27, 2024
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• Pain medication finally recommended in U.S. for IUD use. What about Canada?

  Newly released guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending pain management for the insertion of an intrauterine device.

  Health

  Aug 8, 2024