In the time since she stepped down from her position in June 2023, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, has largely stayed out of the limelight. MedPage Today Washington Editor Joyce ...

Cuts to funding and personnel at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are endangering the public’s health and threatening to disrupt the development of lifesaving vaccines, said former ...

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky tested positive for COVID-19 Friday night. According to a release from the CDC, Walensky is up to date with ...

Former CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky worries that a powerful advisory panel hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. could make some childhood vaccines harder to ...

This story underlines the complexities of scientific decisions that health officials are making in real time during the pandemic. The question is, who should receive an extra shot of a COVID vaccine?

INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO WHAT CAUSED THIS. ONLY ON FIVE TONIGHT. THE WOMAN WHO HELPED LEAD THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE PANDEMIC RETURNS HOME WITH A POWERFUL MESSAGE. DOCTOR ROCHELLE WALENSKY WAS ...

The former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned Friday that the nation’s public health agency is in troubled water under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The delta coronavirus variant surging across the United States appears to cause more severe illness and spread as easily as chickenpox, according to an internal document from the US Centers for ...

WASHINGTON -- New mask guidance for vaccinated individuals does not grant permission for widespread removal of masks, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on ...

NEW YORK — The head of the nation's top public health agency on Wednesday announced a shake-up of the organization, saying it fell short responding to COVID-19 and needs to become more nimble. The ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey -- Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was in Princeton, New Jersey on Thursday. She toured the lab at Princeton University ...

"This is our watershed moment," Walensky told CDC employees. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky made a remarkable acknowledgment of her agency's failures during the ...