Americans have been warned to exercise caution when traveling as certain regions contend with outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne viral disease called chikungunya. Similar advisories were ...

Doctors say the vaccine has been key to eliminating infections among children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood ...

Norovirus cases have risen in the United States in recent weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 14% of tests for the illness came back positive during ...

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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement retracted a longstanding statement on its website that vaccines do not cause autism. Local pediatricians and other experts said the new ...

While it might be the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also the biggest flu and cold season of the year, when cold weather brings gatherings indoors and germs flourish and spread. That’s why we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. The recent meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

After sheltering under desks and behind barricaded doors while an anti-vaxx gunman sprayed more than 150 bullets into CDC headquarters, and then watching the agency’s newly appointed director get ...

The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals, ...

After the latest round of mass firings at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend, the union that represents agency employees estimates that around 3,000 people this ...

The Trump administration’s purge at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has left employees reeling. The firings, which began late Friday, ran across more than a dozen divisions and ...