HHS cuts 10,000 employees in major overhaul of health agencies
This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, amounting to shrinking by about ...
Five senior CDC leaders to depart as agency braces for deep cuts
Five key division leaders at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving ...
NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change
This story was originally published on ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. ...
Millions of women get painful UTIs that keep coming back. A new kind of antibiotic may help break the cycle
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of antibiotic to treat ...
Trump administration pulls back billions in Covid-era funding for state, local health departments
State and local public health departments are bracing themselves as the US Centers for Disease ...
Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a ...
‘People will die based on these decisions’: Trump administration cuts funding for dozens of HIV studies
At the end of last week, Dr. Colleen Kelley said she was getting texts about ...
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions
A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and ...
Dr. Susan Monarez named as Trump’s pick to lead CDC
The White House is nominating Dr. Susan Monarez, the current acting director of the US ...
‘Measles is only a plane flight away’: As outbreak surges, experts warn against global health funding cuts
After returning home from a trip abroad last week, an infant in Houston was hospitalized ...
