The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dropping its 5-day isolation guidance for people with COVID-19. The agency made the announcement on Friday, following reports last month that the policy change was in the works. Until now, people who tested ...

In an effort to help reduce the growing threat posed by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance on enhanced barrier precautions (EBP) in nursing facilities. The new recommendations ...

A CDC committee, hand-picked by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is meeting to revise the vaccine schedule for newborns. Public health experts are sounding the alarm, warning the changes could lead to a rise in preventable infections.

Rep. Dan Goldman is again taking aim at ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the COVID outbreak — just as the congressman preps for an expected primary from an ally of Zohran Mamdani. Goldman (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn) has asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whether the Cuomo administration’s controversial March 25,

Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told employees it was pausing all long-term work-from-home accommodations, the agency is reversing course, according to an email reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Days after the Centers ...

The percentage of individuals giving birth at home rose to a 30-year high in 2021 thanks to the desire of those in labor to avoid hospitals swamped with COVID-19 patients and the accompanying danger of infection that might result. Nearly 52,000 home births ...