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CDC officials plan for the agency's splintering, but questions remain
A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official is telling staff to start planning for the agency's splintering.
Kennedy says he wants to target chronic disease among U.S. tribes. A key program to do that was gutted
A key program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle chronic disease in Native American and Alaska Native communities ...
Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies
The Trump administration is formulating plans to cut roughly a third of the federal health budget, eliminate dozens of programs and vastly whittle down health agencies, according to an internal ...
Strep throat strain that can trigger a flesh-eating disease has more than doubled in the US
Most group A strep infections cause mild illnesses like strep throat — but when that bacteria spreads to the blood and deep ...
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Kennedy Sounds the Alarm for a Healthier Generation! A Call Against Childhood Obesity
Have you ever stopped to think about how the health of our little ones has changed over the past few decades? The numbers are ...
‘Resign or be fired’: Public health trade group head calls for axing RFK Jr.
The director of the American Public Health Association is calling for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “resign or be fired” from his ...
CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was laid off this month, multiple officials tell CBS News, wiping out ...
Hantavirus: What to know about rare disease from mice
Between 1993 and 2022, there were 864 cases of hantavirus disease in the United States. About 38% of severe infections lead ...