Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration ...

President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk cut thousands of probationary positions after only 3.3% of federal workers took Trump's buyout offer.

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency's ...

Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention warns there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke, and even short periods of exposure can be harmful to people’s health.

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

An estimated 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year. No states require K-12 students to ...

The new study is more evidence that the official U.S. tally of confirmed human bird flu infections — 68 in the last year — is ...

As public health officials monitor a rise in U.S. measles cases, some may be wondering if they need a booster vaccine to ...

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired ...