Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. They were all telling one another the same thing: Data on the ...

Because Trump had harshly criticized public health officials during his campaign, STAT anticipated there might be changes to federal health websites. As rumors began swirling near the end of January ...

Sonya Stokes, M.D., an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting and other flu-like symptoms.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC’s, web page on the “Policy for Inclusion of Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Research” is gone. References to unconscious bias on the ...

Nearly every member of an official advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has signed an open letter demanding the agency explain why it removed troves of vital ...

CDC data shows a decrease in U.S. fatal overdoses last year, marking the second annual decline since the drug death epidemic began. Experts cautiously interpret the decline, noting that it's part of a ...

For years, U.S. news outlets reported alarming data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on maternal mortality; the latest showed 32.9 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births, in ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s ...