In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Wednesday, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let go. About 10% of the CDC's staff have been removed ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health is facing questions from a Senate panel. Dr.

The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to US health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of bird flu but a historic measles outbreak centered in West Texas and the worst year for seasonal flu in more than a decade.

Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to UPI.

Interrupted access to health-related data has already led to worse health outcomes and could undermine faith in the U.S. healthcare system, experts say.

Roughly 700 employees are believed to be impacted by the layoffs mandated by the current administration's Department of Government Efficiency.

February, I decided to leave a job I had loved as a science writer at the NIH, in large part because it seemed as if I would no longer be able to do the parts of my job that had once felt meaningful.

A relatively sedate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for National Institutes of Health Director-nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya revealed his five goals to improve people's health.