As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

COVID-19 viral activity was high in the United States during the first week of September, according to fresh data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some regions of the United States ...

New COVID-19 cases continue to crop up nationwide as new variant XFG makes gains both domestically and abroad. Some regions of the United States are experiencing higher rates of positive COVID-19 ...

Why flu vaccines didn’t work that well in the US this season - Flu infections surged in late December and were especially intense in some parts of the country ...

Since 1982, ASPPH has supported the professional development of more than 2,100 recent public health graduates through fellowship and internship programs in partnership with CDC. Established in 1995, ...

A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda. In the year that US Health and Human Services ...

England, Germany, Spain, and other countries in Europe as well as others in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean may pose ...

The CDC has been remade in the Trump administration, but its acting head says it still needs “renewal.” This time last year, Jay Bhattacharya’s main claim to fame was, in essence, a hot take on COVID.

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A public health expert breaks down the most important public health issues on the agenda for the CDC's vaccine advisory ...