The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and its potential links with vaccines, a source familiar with the CDC’s planning said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is in the process of launching a large study into possible links between autism and vaccines, sources familiar with the issue told Reuters.

Dave Weldon, President Trump’s nominee to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a top Democratic senator that he believes there’s a link between vaccines and autism ...

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A former Florida congressman, Weldon also has been a prominent critic of vaccines and the CDC, which promotes vaccines and monitors their safety. Sen. Patty Murray said she had serious concerns ...

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The first meeting of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has been ...

Trump had announced his intent to nominate Weldon to head the CDC in November, but his views on certain vaccines have garnered questions since then — even from U.S. Health and Human Services ...

State Democrats, led by Rep. Saira Draper, held a news conference at the Georgia State Capitol to address recent CDC job cuts. The cuts, part of a White House plan to reduce federal spending ...

Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s top health official. Under Kennedy’s leadership, the CDC pulled the plug on its “Wild to Mild initiative” — which was aimed at encouraging high-risk folks ...

“What diseases would he like to come back?” The reported study by the CDC further raises concerns on his tenure. President Donald Trump, before taking office, told Time magazine that he and ...

It is in that vein I call out my friends at the FDA and CDC for closing a romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 case without supplying the public – who they are supposed to serve – with information ...