The Army is testing the ability of its combat medics to keep critically injured soldiers alive on the future battlefield.

Background: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are major indicators of healthcare quality and patient safety, particularly in resource-constrained intensive care units (ICUs). Aim ...

Americans have been warned to exercise caution when traveling as certain regions contend with outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne viral disease called chikungunya. Similar advisories were ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

The vaccine safety panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to drop federal guidance that all children be vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth, breaking with more than three ...

Months after the CDC eliminated its infection control committee, two epidemiology organizations have created the Healthcare Infection Prevention Advisory Group. The two organizations, the Association ...

Dr. Ralph Abraham has been Louisiana's surgeon general since 2024. A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appointed Louisiana surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham as the second in command, the latest move in a year of upheaval for the agency. Abraham, a vaccine ...

CDC recast the vaccine safety section of its website on Wednesday Kennedy says there are gaps in the vaccine safety science Health agencies say vaccines do not cause autism Nov 21 (Reuters) - Health ...

The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its webpage on autism and vaccines on Wednesday, stating a ...

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

After the latest round of mass firings at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend, the union that represents agency employees estimates that around 3,000 people this ...