Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

DALLAS — More than 400 cases of measles have been reported in Texas, including six here in North Texas, and a child in Lubbock has died from the virus, health officials said. The number of cases ...

The second-largest organization in the world devoted to HIV/AIDS relief faces perhaps its most critical year since inception.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services cut an estimated 10,000 employees on Tuesday, spurring massive changes at federal health agencies and ushering in a new era for public health. The layoffs ...

And if you had told me — the mom who always listened to her pediatrician — that I’d grow more skeptical of the advice offered ...

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Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being ...