Vaccination rates for children have fallen below critical disease-prevention thresholds in more than 8,000 schools across the ...

Federal and state government cuts to public health agencies and programs are leaving a gap in access to care. Hospitals in many communities are preparing to fill that gap, if they can. The Trump ...

Beyond layoffs at federal health agencies, cuts are beginning at state and local health departments as a result of an HHS move last week to pull back more than $11 billion in COVID-19-related money.

part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began laying off thousands of workers at the agency Tuesday—including ... of widely accepted public health research and recommendations.

But agency staff and leaders in the field say the cuts are a blow to public health, medicine and biomedical research in the U.S. "We've never seen anything like this before," Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean ...

2,400 jobs at the CDC, which monitors for infectious disease outbreaks and works with public health agencies nationwide. 1,200 jobs at the NIH. 300 jobs at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

The Trump administration began sending notices of termination to thousands of staffers at federal health agencies Tuesday ... of the Brown University School of Public Health, who served as ...

At the National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading health and medical agency, the layoffs occurred ... finance and information technology. Positions in “high cost regions” or that ...

At the National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading health and medical agency, the layoffs occurred ... executive director of the American Public Health Association.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be ...

Nervous employees — roughly 82,000 across the nation's public health agencies — waited to see whether pink slips would arrive in their inboxes. The mass dismissals have been expected since Secretary ...