CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words -- including "health equity," "race," "bias," and "disparity" -- in their annual performance evaluations; HHS insisted there was no list of banned words at the agency. ( New York Times)

Thousands of federal workers, including staff at the CDC, FDA, and NIH, were laid off as part of sweeping cuts under the Trump administration's directive. The job reductions, primarily targeting probationary employees,

An unknown illness killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo, with just 48 hours between symptom onset and death. (AP) Former federal employees said the mass government firings are taking a toll on their mental health.

Not unlike his experience during his first term, President Donald Trump and his administration are facing all manner of defiance from within, impeding his agenda's progress. The latest example of this involves the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

The Trump administration had directed health agencies to place a notice condemning “gender ideology” on health webpages that had been earlier taken down.

The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug

“Our plans are radical transparency and returning gold standard science [to] NIH, the FDA and CDC, and ending the corporate capture of those agencies,” Kennedy said after being sworn in as HHS ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of Listeria infections linked to Lyons ReadyCare and ...