According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources, there are approximately 1.2 million ...

A federally funded clinical trial suggests knowing HIV viral load (number of HIV particles in the body) doesn’t improve the ...

These developments have prompted states to preserve scientifically backed services where they can: state-regulated private insurance plans, Medicaid, and public health programs. State policymakers ...

On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. 1 The following day, the WHO declared the ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been ordered to end its monkey research for HIV prevention, according to a report. According to unnamed sources, a former DOGE employee, Sam Beyda, ...

Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines ...

Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is now Health and Human Services secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its website to say that its ...

In early October, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its COVID-19 vaccine guidelines. Previous guidelines recommended that virtually everyone get a COVID-19 vaccine, but the ...

Congress’s bipartisan agreement to end the government shutdown is welcome news for cities like mine, Durham, N.C. But we must be honest about what the deal does — and what it leaves undone. Although ...

BANGOR — Steven Cronk, 41, sleeps among a row of tattered, sun-bleached tents that cling to a small strip of land between this city’s rusting railroad tracks and the Penobscot River. He estimated that ...

In the United States, HIV continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. In 2023, more than 39,000 people were diagnosed with HIV, and approximately 4,500 people died from causes ...