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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link.
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was rocked by five high-level departures on Tuesday in the latest turmoil for the nation's top public health agency.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness that causes sores in one's mouth and a rash that often consists of small, white blisters or red bumps.
Before they were fired, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were about to launch a new data system to improve how the U.S. tracks concussions.
The federal health department last month cut 2,400 jobs from the C.D.C., whose National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion runs on the largest budget within the agency.
In early August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its polio warning to an increased level that ...