Thousands of people lose their lives every year to impaired driving, a preventable crisis that has prompted a renewed safety ...

Traffic safety advocates have chosen this Christmas Eve to stage an unusual kind of demonstration., assembling a motorcade of ...

Every year, thousands of Americans are injured or killed by reckless drivers under the influence of alcohol and drugs. This National Impaired Driving Prevention Month, we send our prayers and unending ...

Former US public health officials are sounding alarms about significant changes being made to the country’s vaccine policy under the Trump administration. Two public letters this week — one from ...

Man grazed by bullet in eastside Tacoma shooting on Christmas Tacoma police are investigating a shooting in the city’s east side that left a man with a minor injury on Christmas. Thurston County ...

As marijuana use in the United States is on the rise, a growing number of drivers are getting behind the wheel high, while regulations and law enforcement agencies scramble to keep up with the danger.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed staffers to end all monkey research, according to a report in Science. The decision will affect studies involving some 200 macaques; ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten, now suggesting without evidence that health authorities ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease ...

The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its webpage on autism and vaccines on Wednesday, stating a ...

Every four to eight years, career scientists within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) see priorities and initiatives change as new presidential administrations take office.