Objectives Mesoamerican nephropathy is an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) unrelated to traditional causes, mostly observed in sugarcane workers. We analysed CKD mortality in Costa Rica to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

according the CDC. For years, Kennedy has blamed Big Food and Big Pharma for the nation’s “chronic disease epidemic” on additives and junk food, including during his campaign for ...

CDC advisors voted to lower the age ... as people aged older than 60 years: Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma, COPD, chronic bronchitis, chronic kidney disease, immunocompromising ...

The study, published Tuesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ... "Autism is not a chronic disease, nor a childhood disease, it is a lifelong developmental condition; it is not ...

along with staff from the CDC's centers focused on chronic disease and drug overdoses. HHS had previously said that AHA would combine teams from several agencies, including the Substance Abuse and ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen ...

It is unclear how much funding was pulled from California, but a $37-million grant from CDC in 2022 may be affected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the California ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines ... "possible factors" in the nation's problem with chronic diseases. "Nothing is going to be off limits," Kennedy ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely ... the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. "CDC is monitoring the situation closely and engaging with DRC officials on what ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), measles cases have been reported in eight states. The CDC’s Measles Cases and Outbreaks page has an interactive map and charts ...