BRUNSWICK, ME — A new statewide survey has placed former Maine CDC director Nirav Shah at the front of the Democratic primary field for governor, his campaign announced on December 10. The Pan ...

State health officials were able to find a person who touched a rabid raccoon in Wells after the animal tested positive for the virus this week. What we know about the Brown University shooting ...

WELLS, Maine (WMTW) -- Maine health officials were able to locate a person who touched a rabid raccoon in Wells after the animal tested positive for the virus this week. The Maine Center for Disease ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Public health leaders are monitoring HIV cases in Penobscot County — and now in Cumberland County. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued an advisory ...

Doctors, hospitals and public health departments are scrambling to ensure proper care for pregnant women and their babies following a controversial vote from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Maine physicians and medical groups are criticizing the CDC's vaccine advisory committee's vote to roll back recommendations for infant hepatitis B vaccines. Ohio sheriff takes defiant stance on ...

When Susan Monarez was sworn in to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s premier public-health agency, many researchers across the country breathed a sigh of ...

In their most significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...