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In choosing a leading vaccine critic to run the CDC, the HHS secretary continues to endanger public health ...

Seeing a doctor early in pregnancy is critical for the health of mother and baby, doctors say. More women are either waiting longer or going without prenatal care.

In our news wrap Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will serve as acting head of the CDC, the FDA reversed its decision to consider whether to approve a new mRNA flu shot from Moderna and billionaire Les Wexner ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, has been tapped as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following Jim O'Neill's removal last week, according to multiple reports.

The transition is the latest in a monthslong series of leadership shake-ups across federal health agencies.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed Jim O'Neill, whom Trump will nominate to lead the National Science Foundation, from the CDC job last week.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will take on the additional responsibility of leading the CDC after the former acting director was ousted.