But the biggest test for the CDC’s new director, Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, has arrived before her first day on the job. Schwartz, who has been confirmed but not sworn in, will have to decide how to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal health officials to review the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule. The order does not itself rew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty But in March 2020, when Brosseau started making a case for ...

FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, whenever pediatrician John Snyder wanted to find the most up-to-date research on treating young ...

Share on Pinterest After a two-month delay, a CDC panel met last week to discuss vaccine guidelines for COVID-19, RSV, HPV, and other infectious diseases. Luis Alvarez/Getty Images The CDC is ...

The last time the CDC changed its COVID-19 isolation recommendations was in 2021, when it reduced the isolation time for infected people from 10 days to five days. (Getty Images) The Centers for ...

Opioids are a powerful, pain-relieving class of drugs—but they’re controversial for a reason. Historically, “street opioids” like heroin have been largely responsible for mounting opioid overdose ...

It is no longer necessary to isolate for five days after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a Friday statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new guidance ...