RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...
Dr. Oz confirmed to head agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid
The Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz is a party line 53-45 vote to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to take lead of Medicare and Medicaid agency
Former heart surgeon and TV pitchman Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Here’s where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation’s top health agencies
Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday. The moves will shrink the Department of Health ...
A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired
A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health ...
City loses federal help for MPS lead contamination probe after mass layoffs announced by RFK Jr.
CDC employees helping the city investigate lead poisoning at MPS buildings were swept up in mass federal layoffs announced by ...
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CDC Employees Say Layoffs Under Trump Hit Black and Marginalized Staff Hardest
Employees at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are accusing the Trump administration and the Elon Musk ...
Kennedy Fires Thousands Across Health Agencies: Food Regulation, HIV Prevention, Infectious Disease Offices All Affected
Kennedy Jr. began laying off thousands of workers at the agency Tuesday—including leaders of divisions tasked with regula ...
'Delay and deny care' to 9/11 survivors. Trump HHS cuts World Trade Center Program staff
In February, the administration restored cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program's budget, but new staff cuts threaten ...
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment ...
Opinion
Susan Monarez, Trump’s nominee for CDC director, faces an unprecedented and tumultuous era at the agency
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, the position has been held on an interim basis by Susan Monarez, whom Trump has now nominated to take the job permanently after his first ...
Opinion
CDC ‘disease detectives’ save lives. Cutting them will cost us (Your Letters)
Idea to put battery-powered lights in World Trade Center stairwells saved thousands on 9/11. It wouldn't have happened without the Epidemic Intelligence Service, writes an alumnus.