Rescinded job offers, delayed health updates and confusion over cutting government checks upend business as usual across Washington.

Public health emergencies demand decisive leadership, proactive capacities, and swift, coordinated responses to mitigate their impacts on lives, livelihoods, and economies, particularly in Africa, ...

The order also applies to other health and science agencies, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in ...

The virus spreads easily and quickly through contaminated food and water. Cases often spike each year as people gather with family and friends during the holidays.

The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings. The move covers a swath of health ...

U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the Department ...

In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible bird flu cases hiding in the flock of rising flu diagnoses.

President Trump has imposed temporary freezes at the National Institutes of Health on meetings, travel, communications and hiring, citing the need to review protocols.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has paused public communications until Feb. 1 as Trump appointees take control of health agencies.

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.In a<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

The U.S. plan to withdraw from the World Health Organization will squeeze Africa's health initiatives, the Africa Centres for ...