The policy statement aims to bring more rapid action on personnel and management decisions and empowers HHS and each of its offices and subagencies ...

ORIGINAL STORY: CDC to lose nearly 1,300 probationary employees under Trump's job cuts ...

Effective March 3, 2025, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded its long-standing policy that had waived a statutory ...

Federal public health responses to COVID-19 revealed a myriad of shortcomings. Especially with regard to face mask protocols ...

By the summer of 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic had entered a new phase. Vaccines were widely available for those who wanted them, and coronavirus cases had ...

The Atlanta-based CDC is charged with protecting Americans from outbreaks and other public health threats. Before the job ...

HHS secretary RFK Jr. considered vitamin A as a CDC-recommended therapeutic for supportive measles care. Public health and infectious disease experts weigh the benefits and risks.

Recent cuts to the federal workforce could negatively impact cancer research and public health for years to come, researchers say.

On Tuesday, an unknown number of CDC staff began receiving emails stating that their letters of termination were being ...

Nearly 200 fired CDC employees invited back to work, two weeks after job cuts - The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance ...

The United States is facing one of its most significant measles outbreaks in recent decades, with Texas emerging as the focal ...