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The sharp job cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include a successful program reducing HIV transmission to babies. Over the past 30 years, the number of infant HIV cases has fallen ...
The changes come as part of a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced by Health ...
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the ...
A protest erupted outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Roybal campus in Atlanta Tuesday as employees ...
ATLANTA — The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease ... Before their firings, the CDC had been working with the Milwaukee Health Department for two months to address hazardous levels of lead in ...
“That wasn’t happening anymore in the U.S., but it will again.” Workers at the Atlanta-based CDC began receiving termination notices Monday night and again Tuesday morning. The cuts to staff ...
Public health experts say the CDC cuts could represent generational damage to health research and the elimination of infectious diseases.