A page of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website was changed to include a false claim about autism and vaccines. Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees inside the Department of Health and Human Services without input from relevant agency staffers.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including a program to increase hepatitis B screening for pregnant women,

Cuts to funding and personnel at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are endangering the public’s health and threatening to disrupt the development of lifesaving vaccines, said former CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky at the Boston Globe Summit on Wednesday.