US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Democratic-led states seek to block Trump administration from ending public health funding
The states - California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota - said they were being unlawfully subjected to "devastating funding cuts to basic public health infrastructure based on political animus."
US to drop childhood vaccine recommendations as it looks to Denmark, Washington Post reports
While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains
US CDC adopts Kennedy's anti-vaccine views on recast website
US health chief Kennedy targets 'environmental toxins' as cause of autism
Robert F. Kennedy contradicted both developing and established science on autism in his first press conference since becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who compared Tuskegee syphilis study to Nazi atrocities, dies at 86
Buxtun died from Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, on May 18, although his passing was only reported this week. He was 86.
Hundreds of Israelis contract new COVID sub-variant JN.1
The Health Ministry confirmed the report, adding that Israel has seen a small rise in morbidity rates...around 200 cases of the sub-variant were recorded in Israel."
Damage to body from lifelong stress can increase risk of death from cancer - study
The team led by Moore performed a retrospective analysis of more than 41,000 people from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
COVID-19: BA.4, BA.5 Omicron subvariants make up 13% of all US cases
BA.4 made up 5.4% of the variants in the country for the week ending June 4, according to CDC estimates, while BA.5 made up 7.6% of the variants during the same time.
US FDA clears Pfizer's COVID booster shot for young children
Children below the age of five are not yet eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Bird flu poses 'low public health risk' amid outbreaks in 13 US states
CDC isn't overly concerned as Avian Influenza outbreaks were found in domesticated flocks in Maryland, Missouri, Indiana, Connecticut and Iowa last week.
People vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to die of other causes - study
Those who received the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or J&J vaccines are less likely to die from non-COVID-related causes, a CDC study found.
CDC says delta variant more vaccine-resistant than previously thought
Vaccinated people had a similar amount of virus presence as the unvaccinated, suggesting that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant could transmit the virus.
US to resume use of J&J COVID-19 vaccine immediately - FDA, CDC
"The benefits do clearly outweigh the risk from a population and individual perspective."
