The agency plays a key role in tracking disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research.

Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been frozen without notice or explanation, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Although a federal judge ordered the agencies in February to restore earlier versions of the scrubbed webpages and later ruled the White House order as “void,” 38 of the CDC’s 82 public data records had “unexplained pauses,” as of Oct. 28, the study found.

The CDC briefly paused more than 100 grants to states and organizations to update infrastructure for public health projects.

HealthDay News — Federal officials have lifted a short pause on more than 100 public health grants worth over $5 billion, allowing states to continue work aimed at strengthening health systems.

An audit of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public databases found that nearly half of routinely updated federal health surveillance systems had stopped or delayed updates in 2025,

The CDC and AAP have released conflicting childhood vaccine schedules, leading to confusion from parents and uproar from medical experts.

H. Foege, a former CDC director who helped eradicate smallpox and whose health work saved millions of lives, died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health has confirmed 54 new measles cases in just three days, raising the size of its outbreak, which DPH first reported in October, to 700 cases. The news comes as the CDC confirmed 416 total US cases so far this month—an increase of 245 infections in the past week—and as U.