The Latest Breaking News from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have impacted generations of Black Americans

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert urging doctors to refamiliarize themselves with mpox symptoms and encourage vaccination for at-risk patients.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning

In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published multiple reports analyzing health disparities between rural and urban populations.

Last month, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change charted global temperatures to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and on a destructive trajectory to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the early 2030s. This intersects surprisingly with another piece of news: the Centers for Disease Control…

ATLANTA — The Food and Drug Administration has taken up the regulation of tobacco products as a key issue to focus on in 2023, particularly prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars and cigarillos.

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced in October that young men should not get the COVID-19 vaccine, guidance that runs counter to medical advice issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Years of widening economic inequality, compounded by the pandemic and political storm and stress, have given Americans the impression that the country is on the wrong track. Now there's empirical data to show just how far the country has run off the rails: Life expectancies have been falling.

Emergency rooms in the U.S. saw a significant rise in the number of patients with gun injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Thursday.