RFK Jr. during his Senate confirmation hearing said the CDC would return to “gold standard science,” and said he would support vaccines if shown data backing their safety. But when presented ...

The source said Weldon was informed Wednesday night that his nomination was being withdrawn. Weldon was to be the first CDC director subject to the confirmation process. The White House decision ...

“I’m only here today because they cannot fire me twice,” Sloane said. When he received his termination notice, he was a few months into a job as a public affairs specialist at the Centers for Disease ...

A key Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee shared concerns about CDC director nominee Dave Weldon’s vaccine views with the White House before his nomination ...

Weldon’s nomination was withdrawn. "His poor response to this situation shows that the pressures of being CDC director would have been too much,” he said. Weldon also claimed the ...

Trump had announced his intent to nominate Weldon to head the CDC in November. Weldon has a history of vaccine skepticism. The physician and former congressman has pushed a debunked link between ...

FILE - Former Congressman Dr. David Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File) ...

Those advisers routinely disclose conflicts in public meetings, but the CDC last week launched a web tool “to increase the transparency of conflicts of interest.” At Thursday’s hearing, Democrats are ...