Senator Bill Cassidy slams the CDC’s website, which claims the scientific consensus that vaccines don’t cause autism is “not an evidence-based claim.” Cassidy tells Dana Bash, “It’s been firmly established vaccines do not cause autism.

The four newly linked states — Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania — join Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and hard-hit Michigan.

A Senate committee delayed a vote on the Trump administration's CDC director nominee, Erica Schwartz, because enough members were not present.

Senator Bill Cassidy weighs in with CNN’s Dana Bash on the fact that the Center for Disease Control has yet to remove language from its website projecting uncertainty about a link between autism and vaccines following his endorsement of Dr.

Trump's nominee faces the Senate health committee for her confirmation hearing on July 15. If confirmed, she will lead an agency dealing with workforce and leadership shortages and new layers of political review.

Cyclospora presents a test for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise to overhaul the food system and restore confidence in the agencies overseeing it.

The Senate’s health committee pushed back a vote to advance two top health care nominations but indicated that one, the pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would win the necessary votes.

Public health officials acknowledge they need to shed paternalistic messaging if they want to reach more people. The nominee to run the CDC says she will strike a new tone.