Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

Heavy cuts at the CDC threaten to upend Kentucky's public health infrastructure, as local officials describe confusion and uncertainty around the agency's guidance. Without stable support for public ...

Editor's Note (10/15/25): On Wednesday a federal judge in California temporarily halted the September 10 layoffs of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco granted the ...

Our country’s public health system is ailing. With layoffs and leadership changes at the CDC, changing vaccine guidelines, a government shutdown, and declining public trust—where do we go from here?

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. public health system is headed to a "very dangerous place" with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team of anti-vaccine advisers in charge, fired Centers for Disease ...

The public-facing website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was changed this week, breaking with scientific consensus and stating there could be a link between vaccines and autism ...