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President Trump will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, told agency ...

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The pausing of lab testing comes in the wake of the dramatic downsizing of the CDC in the last year through layoffs, ...

The White House won’t meet an expected Wednesday deadline to nominate a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Reactive safety measures treat symptoms but fail to eliminate systemic hazards, leading to recurring issues. The three layers of safety training—task performance, hazard awareness, and engineering ...

‘I’ve never seen an agency that is responsible for the health of 340 million Americans be so willy-nilly.’ ‘I’m an E.R. doc, so I handle stress pretty well. But this was like being in a mass disaster ...

The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay ...

The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines strongly recommend performance improvement programs and immediate antimicrobial therapy.

MONTREAL - Despite the delays for NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon and back, a space medicine researcher says the crew, which includes Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are physically ready ...