“Any cuts to CDC funds will make our country sicker and will weaken efforts around preventative care,” said Michael Curry, chief executive of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Center ...

Mass layoffs began Tuesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, the first steps in a plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human ...

Emergency room visits related to COVID-19 are also on the rise, the CDC says, spiking 12.6% in one week. The biggest jumps were seen last week in Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr, a long-time skeptic of fluoride, said he would plan to tell the CDC to ...

Massachusetts public health programs are among ... A lawsuit challenging the CDC trims prompted a court order that for now will keep the funds flowing, but the courts may eventually side with ...

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - A mosquito virus is on the ... they also become hubs for infectious disease. The CDC is warning travelers about the dengue virus, a mosquito-spread illness that ...

Now, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health ... according to DPH. According to the CDC, "the flu usually lasts a few days to two weeks," adding, "factors affecting duration (include ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending ...

In one recent example from before the cutbacks, state health officials in Massachusetts worked with the CDC lab to investigate a "concerning" case of a new strain of gonorrhea that was resistant ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts leaders are heavily criticizing a decision by the Trump administration to pull back more than $100 million in federal pandemic-related grants, saying it will jeopardize ...

The states with the lowest total rates included Massachusetts (3.7), New Jersey (4.6), New York (4.7), Rhode Island (4.8) and Hawaii (4.9). The CDC’s total of deaths from gun-related injuries ...