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Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update — tracking health information like Covid vaccination rates and RSV hospitalizations — have been paused, according to new research.
Federal health officials have lifted a short pause on more than 100 public health grants worth over $5 billion.
An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely updated federal health surveillance systems had stopped or delayed updates in 2025,
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Northeast Florida, teaming up with locals for a national health survey designed to improve medical recommendations.
The South Carolina Department of Public Health has confirmed 54 new measles cases in just three days, raising the size of its outbreak, which DPH first reported in October, to 700 cases. The news comes as the CDC confirmed 416 total US cases so far this month—an increase of 245 infections in the past week—and as U.
American epidemiologist William Foege, the tenth Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose efforts in the public health field helped lead to the eradication of smallpox, died on Jan. 24 at 89 years old.