Stopping the widespread use of unnecessary, potentially even harmful, cancer screenings can take up to 13 years and ...

A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers — some still working, others who were fired this year ...

Nearly 1,400 people were laid off from the Department of Education as the Trump administration works to dismantle it.

Waning immunization rates mean Arizona schoolchildren are more vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping ...

Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the ...

North Carolina State Representative Rodney D. Pierce (D-27) announces the second installment of his signature event series, Bringing the Capital to the Constituents, with a special session focused on ...

Political newcomer Michael Gainer was knocked off the ballot for the Democratic primary following a lawsuit that found some of Gainer’s nominating petitions contained fraud. Gainer has qualified for ...

Firings, forced retirements and voluntary departures have left the U.S. at risk of more deaths from the nation’s top ...

"We're turning back the clock in a very dangerous way," said Paul Allwood, whose team at the CDC was eliminated in April.

The health and human services secretary is shrinking staff at health agencies and reshaping the mission of his department to ...

In anticipation of the next big one, the U.S. government began bolstering the nation’s pandemic flu defenses during the George W. Bush administration. These strategies were designed by the security ...