The Senate HELP Committee narrowly advanced President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday voted along party lines, 12-11, to advance Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for ...

A U.S. Senate committee has approved Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) voted to advance Susan Monarez's nomination as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on ...

During a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee executive session, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) spoke in ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...

Monarez is the first CDC director nominee to require Senate confirmation. She became acting director in January after President Donald Trump pulled his first pick, David Weldon. She has a Ph.D. in ...

The woman tapped to lead the US CDC dodged key questions about recent cuts to the agency during a Senate hearing.

Trump’s pick, former acting CDC Director Susan Monarez, said that she trusted vaccines while defending HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision this month — widely seen as part of a ...

Monarez, who served as the CDC’s deputy director from January to March and later as acting director, said repeatedly that she was not familiar with the details of layoffs that stalled lead ...