The lab's 25 or so full-time employees were put on administrative leave on March 27, forcing it to shut down operations.

However, infectious diseases that were hitherto under control are re-emerging globally and the pathogens of these diseases are highly resistant to known antibiotics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reinstated more than 400 employees who had previously been laid off, the ...

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

Bobby Sherman, a singer and teen idol in the '60s, died of cancer at age 81. (AP) A man charged with supplying chemicals used ...

Lubbock Public Health is facing potential federal cuts to their budget, including a proposed 50% reduction in CDC funding, as ...

Former CDC employees, scientists, and community activists are planning a dramatic protest outside the agency's Clifton campus ...

Agency tells court that states are not suffering "irreparable harm" from cuts even as agency leaders lament "operational disruptions" and "loss of expertise and capacity." ...

After undergoing layoffs earlier this year, hundreds of previously fired staff at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now being asked to return to work. Employees who ...

“Bringing a few hundred people back to work out of thousands fired is a start, but there are still countless programs at CDC that have been cut, which will lead to increased disease and death,” one of ...

More than 200 employees had their firings rescinded at the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention, along with 158 at the National Center for Environmental ...