FILE PHOTO: U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental ...

News about Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.

On May 23, the WHO recognized kidney disease as a global health threat and urged member states to take steps to promote kidney health and strengthen prevention and treatment efforts, according to ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

The fifth Symposium on Infectious Disease in the Immunocompromised Host convened in Seattle last month. Experts and rising ...

Disease prevention is a procedure through which individuals, particularly those with risk factors for a disease, are treated in order to prevent a disease from occurring. Treatment normally begins ...

There are many types of liver disease, ranging from those that are treatable to those that require a liver transplant. Learn about symptoms, causes, and more.

The largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants and the homeless since 2022, new research said Wednesday.