Dr. Susan Monarez is slated to be sworn in as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, a position that’s been vacant for the past six months.

The Senate confirmed Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday evening.

From vaccines to fluoride, here's what the newly confirmed CDC director Susan Monarez has said about some key health topics.

Multiple medical groups say they have been barred from working on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of vaccine advisers.

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U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation's top medical organizations that they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations. The government told the organizations on Thursday via email that their experts are being disinvited from the workgroups that have been the backbone of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Childhood vaccination rates for the 2024-25 school year fell for the fifth year in a row, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Thursday.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high

The new report paints a sobering picture of immunizations as infectious diseases like measles surge across the United States.