The Trump administration has hit its legal limit for leaving the position of director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vacant after firing the sitting director last year. Former ...

President Trump will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, told agency ...

The White House has delayed nominating a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is continuing a search, according to officials, as the Trump administration navigates ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again searching for a new leader. During the current Trump administration, the embattled agency tasked with protecting the nation's health has ...

The White House won’t meet an expected Wednesday deadline to nominate a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

The White House may pick a former governor, a state health director or a cardiologist who has been critical of repeated coronavirus boosters to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The CDC, which went through a gamut of leaders in 2025, could soon be led by either a Johns Hopkins Medicine cardiologist or a former Kentucky governor, according to reports from Bloomberg and The ...

HHS chief counselor Klomp optimistic about selecting a new CDC head CDC has been racked by turmoil surrounding HHS vaccine policy Vaccines advisory committee may be disbanded and reconstituted after ...

Chances are, you have been receiving some calls from numbers unfamiliar to you and they could be from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doing a phone survey on immunization on Guam.

The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay ...

‘I’ve never seen an agency that is responsible for the health of 340 million Americans be so willy-nilly.’ ‘I’m an E.R. doc, so I handle stress pretty well. But this was like being in a mass disaster ...