Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday labeled the increasing rates of autism in children an epidemic and said ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding ...

Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...

The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said cruise ship inspections will continue amid government layoffs, an official said the task will be more challenging for remaining workers. The ...

The CDC has laid off hundreds of employees, affecting little known parts of the agency that help keep people alive.

We have in some states as low as 1 out of 20 boys having autism, 1 out of 31 kids. And when I was, in my generation today, the rate of autism was 1 in 10,000," Health and Human Services Secretary ...

The CDC is struggling to respond to the Texas measles outbreak. The U.S. has reported more than 700 cases in 25 states.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC's lead poisoning program will be reinstated.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said ... trips to a dentist. The CDC calls cavities the most common chronic disease of childhood in the United States, and Kennedy has said that ...