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State Health Department in Collier County still references "suspected" measles despite 66 cases since late January.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stepped up efforts to rewrite U.S. vaccination policy, dropping recommendations ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been picked to also serve as acting director of the CDC, a White House official ...

Current NIH director and former Stanford medical school professor Jay Bhattacharya M.D. ’97 will act as director of the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also take on the temporary role of acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration ...

Bhattacharya replaces Jim O’Neill, who served simultaneously as acting CDC director and deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. The New York Times was first to report the news.