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CDC official overseeing COVID hospitalization data resigns after RFK Jr.'s vaccine orders
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from ...
Why a vaccine expert left the CDC: ‘Americans are going to die’
Dr. Fiona Havers, who studied medicine at the University of Washington, says the wholesale dismissal of the CDC's scientific ...
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Unintentional fall deaths rise among older adults: CDC
Between 2003 and 2023, the national rate of unintentional falls increased more than 70% among adults 65 and older, according to CDC data published June 18.  Fall death rates increased for several age ...
How CDC cuts affect women with chronic diseases like sickle cell
The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...
The CDC removes pregnant women and healthy children from COVID vaccine recommendation list
Kennedy made the announcement this week in an X post saying that the Centers for Disease and Prevention removed pregnant ...
US women waiting longer to have children, CDC data shows
New CDC data shows the average age of US mothers reached 29.6 in 2023, with significant differences across geographic and ...
The average age of U.S. moms is nearing 30, new CDC data shows
First-time mothers are older, teen pregnancies are down, and Americans are rethinking when to start families. Women in the ...
Average age of moms giving birth in U.S. has climbed to nearly 30 years old, CDC data show
Average age also increased for first-time moms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State health officials urge kids, pregnant women to get COVID-19 vaccine despite federal pullback
Wisconsin health officials say RFK Jr.'s recent pullback of COVID-19 vaccine advice for kids and pregnant women isn’t based ...