Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman and physician, is set to appear at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for ...

President Trump's nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is getting ready to appear before Congress.

P resident Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), former Republican ...

Unlike President Trump's picks to lead other health agencies who established their conservative bona fides during the ...

Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm over plans by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study on whether there's a causal link between vaccines ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is initiating expanded research into understanding autism and its potential links with vaccines, a source familiar with the CDC’s planning said.

President Donald Trump's nominee for CDC director, Dr. Dave Weldon, is set for a U.S. Senate committee hearing next week. Some senators have expressed concerns over Weldon's views on vaccines.

Incoming CDC director Dave Weldon and Kennedy go back at least two decades in their joint scrutiny of vaccines as a cause of autism. In a since-retracted 2005 Rolling Stone piece falsely linking ...

In his days as a former congressman, Weldon promoted the idea that a mercury-containing vaccine preservative caused children to become autistic. That runs counter to CDC’s stance that there is no link ...