CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies
More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence ...
Texas Department of State Health Services cancels immunization conference amid CDC uncertainty
The Texas Department of State Health Services canceled its biennial immunization conference amid uncertainty over the ability ...
CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...
Thousands of probationary federal health agency workers fired by letter this weekend. Here's what it said.
The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task ...
US CDC, NIH lay off probationary workers under Trump job cuts, sources say
Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls ...
Trump’s firings strike the nation’s health agencies
Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...
Trump cuts target next generation of scientists and public health leaders
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...
CDC and other agencies losing 1000s of workers under Trump’s probationary job cuts
Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be ...
6 ideas to make the CDC great again
The CDC’s incoming head, former Congressman Dave Weldon, a physician, has been commissioned by Trump to “ focus on the ...
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$1.6million Allocated to Nine National Public Health Institutes Centers of Excellence
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has set aside $1.6million for nine newly designated ...
Skipping shots? CDC recommends vaccines for kids, adults. See what MS schools require
CDC holds that vaccines are a safe, effective way to protect your health and prevent the spread of flu, COVID, measles. What ...
FEMA firings, proposed state cuts alarm Douglas County health officials: 'This is a bad mix'
Health board president says cuts in federal personnel and in state funding could leave Douglas County "on an island" in a ...