Tag: public health
Trump’s CDC cuts could threaten chronic illness and national security, experts warn
Donald Trump’s budget would cut funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 53%,…
order to cull more than 400 ostriches over bird flu fears ruffles feathers
Police have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists…
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy’s tenuous alliance with RFK Jr. is about to hit a breaking point
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy once hoped to forge an alliance with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could revitalize…
Lost federal funding slows transport of Kansas water, health samples to state labs
Ashley Goss, deputy director of public health, explains the consequences of losing federal funding for a statewide courier…
CDC Director Susan Monarez refuses to step down, arguing only Trump can fire her
Susan Monarez, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is being ousted from her…
top CDC officials resign over ‘weaponization of public health’
The leading US public health agency faced a number of top-level resignations on Wednesday after its director was…
How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week
On the evening of Aug. 5, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a 2 1/2-minute video to X announcing…
How New Delhi’s garbage mountains become heat bombs for waste pickers
New Delhi, India – “My right eye swells up in the heat, so I stopped going to the…
Maddow Blog | Trump’s NIH chief tries (and fails) to defend cuts to mRNA vaccine research
The list of bad decisions from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not short, but this was…
Inside the CDC, shooting adds to trauma as workers describe projects, careers in limbo
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say…
Officials call out RFK Jr. for history of vilifying CDC after shooting
After Friday's deadly shooting outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, some public health officials called out Health Secretary…