Medical experts and politicians question who will be chosen as the CDC’s next leader amid a surge in measles cases and ...

Measles, which was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, has seen a resurgence across the country with over 300 ...

With Louisiana’s high maternal mortality rates, this designation ensures Opelousas General is equipped to provide safer ...

The Brevard-based doctor and former congressman said: "The concern of many people is that big Pharma was behind this, which ...

Minutes before his confirmation hearing, the White House pulled David Weldon's nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of David Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the Centers for Disease ...

The U.S. can’t afford another high-ranking health official who is opposed to vaccines.

In the past, the CDC director has been appointed to lead ... Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana who chairs the HELP Committee, “was also throwing around the claim that I was ‘antivax ...

Weldon was to be the first CDC director subject to the confirmation ... Susan Collins (R-Maine) and HELP Committee chairman Bill Cassidy (R-La.) as the two senators most responsible for ending ...

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chair of the Senate HELP Committee ... "Clearly, big Pharma didn't want me in the CDC investigating any of this," Weldon wrote. Weldon said that Collins' staff had ...

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Susan Collins of Maine ... causal link between childhood vaccines and autism, and accused the CDC of short-circuiting research that might show otherwise.

He also believes that Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who chairs the ... to this situation shows that the pressures of being CDC director would have been too much.” Sen. Patty Murray, who ...