The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also take on the temporary role of acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until President Trump appoints a permanent director.

Bhattacharya is taking the role after the previous acting director, Health and Human Services Department Deputy Secretary Jim ...

The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

Health officials in Illinois have identified the state’s first measles case of 2026. On Tuesday, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced the first confirmed ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

It’s been one year since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. How's he doing so far? Depends on whom you ask. On the HHS website, a page ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed the nation's health systems away from science and toward conspiracy-fueled quackery ...

Trust in government health agencies has plummeted, according to health policy and research group KFF, with declines across the political spectrum. And experts told CNN that they fear things could get ...