The AAP’s updated vaccine guidance marks a significant break in decades of collaboration with the CDC. Here’s what you need to know. The CDC now recommends hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and meningococcal ...

Walter Dowdle, a renowned microbiologist, virologist, and public health leader who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO, and made significant contributions to ...

A new study found that by 2035, almost 50% of Americans will be medically obese. In 1990, that number was just 20%. Nonwhite ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, why the group is breaking with the CDC on vaccine recommendations for children.

Our findings suggest an increasing gap in diabetes prevalence between the most and least genetically susceptible. This suggests that people with a high genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes could ...