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 ...

Weldon’s nomination was withdrawn.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 ...

The source said Weldon was informed Wednesday night that his nomination was being withdrawn.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 ...

but his track record is about as damning as it gets. NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

CDC Nominee Dave Weldon Is Likely to Be Pressed on His Vaccine Views at Senate Hearing NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. David Weldon had been out of the national spotlight for more than 15 years when he was ...

“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 ...

March 13 (UPI) --The Trump administration on Thursday retracted the nomination of Dave Weldon to direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. The former Florida congressman was ...