Federal levers include authorization, guideline-linked insurance coverage, and Vaccines for Children funding, whereas states can set school-entry mandates and choose alternative guidance frameworks.

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A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had ...

In Roanoke County and surrounding counties, COVID-19 emergency department visit levels remain low. Flu and RSV emergency ...

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A 3-day meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that was scheduled for next week has been called off, HHS confirmed to Healio on Thursday.HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said ...

Almost a dozen cases of measles so far this year along with a pediatric flu death is now prompting the Virginia Department of Health to align immunization schedules with the American Academy of ...

A U.S. vaccine advisory committee meeting, scheduled by the CDC, has been canceled without a new date. Health Secretary ...

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.

Moderna announced the change Wednesday, about a week after revealing that the FDA’s vaccine chief was refusing to review the new vaccine, made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.

Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald Trump’s second term. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired ...