Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.

One source familiar with the CDC layoffs said managers had no say on the criteria and that about 45% of probationary employees would be let go. An unspecified number of employees at the National Institutes of Health were also fired, two sources familiar ...

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.

The latest cuts will affect about 5,200 employees working across agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health and ... and medicine outlet reported. The CDC alone will lose roughly 1,300 workers ...

The latest cuts will affect about 5,200 employees working across agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes ... The CDC alone will lose roughly ...

Staff layoffs. Slashed budgets. Canceled conferences. We take a look at the effects of the Trump administration’s defunding of health and science research with science reporter Angus Chen. Chen, who reports on cancer research,

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from the conservative governing plan after Democratic attacks. But now it’s increasingly viewed as a blueprint for his administration’s plans for federal health programs.

Recent cuts at HHS have led to reinstatement of funding and jobs for federal healthcare programs, including FDA and CDC. Updates on rehiring, funding restorati

according to an audio recording of a National Institutes of Health department meeting. In that meeting, an NIH office director told employees that some probationary staff with specialized skills might be spared. Terminated staff were to receive emails ...

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

The CDC’s incoming head, former Congressman Dave Weldon, a physician, has been commissioned by Trump to “ focus on the prevention of disease. ” In the eight decades since its creation, the CDC has become an emblem of governmental mission creep.