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, 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 ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...

CDC confirms 910 measles cases in 2026, with South Carolina reporting the highest numbers among children and unvaccinated individuals.

Merck could lose up to $630 million in Gardasil revenue this year now that the U.S. no longer recommends three doses of the HPV shot in the childhood vaccine schedule, according to Jefferies analysts.

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