Pa. accepts fed help, says CDC is obscuring the seriousness of measles outbreak by not counting its deaths

Pennsylvania will accept help from a “disease detective” sent by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to curb the worst measles outbreak in the country, the state’s top health official said ...

How a Controversial Hepatitis B Study Was Funded by the CDC Amid a Global Swirl of Criticism

As experts questioned the ethics of the study, documents show that expiring funds forced a rushed vote in Denmark, where the ...

Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...

CDC to deploy additional resources to Pennsylvania to aid measles response

The support to Pennsylvania after a measles outbreak will come through the Epi-Aid program, a rapid Centers for Disease Control and Prevention response that helps investigate and contain urgent public ...

CDC: Unsafe sleep factors involved in 73% of sudden infant deaths

CDC data found 73% of nearly 4,900 sudden unexpected infant deaths from 2020 to 2024 involved unsafe sleep factors, including ...
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Fracture-specific infection criteria may capture more cases than CDC infection definitions

A classification system specific to fracture-related infections captured more cases of infection than the CDC surgical site ...