Month: April 2025

Health News

‘A huge impact on worker safety’: Protection for miners, firefighters in jeopardy after CDC cuts

Anyone in the US who’s depended on a respirator to provide protection against dust, smoke, mold or airborne viruses has likely relied on a small but mighty agency within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assure that they’re shielded from things that could damage their health. The 1,300-person National Institute for Occupational […]

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Dramatic HHS cuts leave US ‘weaker as a nation,’ says top FDA vaccine official forced out under Kennedy

Marks, the former director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, had been instrumental in carrying out “Operation Warp Speed,” the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine program. He also oversaw the regulation of innovative biologic products like gene therapies. Given the choice to resign or be fired, Marks stepped down […]

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Scholars, groups sue Trump administration over canceled NIH research funding

A public health association and one of the nation’s largest worker unions are suing the Trump administration over the abrupt cancellation of hundreds of research grants, arguing that the moves were arbitrary and capricious and that the federal grant process is supposed to be above politics. The complaint was filed Wednesday in a Massachusetts court […]

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Staff cuts at federal health agencies have begun

A massive wave of job cuts began at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week that cuts would hit about 10,000 full-time employees on […]