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The department on Tuesday began mass layoffs at high profile health agencies like the FDA, CDC and National Institutes of Health, aiming to fire 10,000 staffers as part of a broader plan by ...

On the heels of the number of opioid overdoses falling 24% in Manchester in 2024, and a 21% decrease in fatal overdoses year over year, city health officials are asking aldermen for approval to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — There are now four confirmed cases of measles in Tennessee, according to the state health department. The Tennessee Department of Health announced the state’s first ...

Kennedy announced last week a plan to reshape health agencies, including firing 3,500 people at the FDA, 2,400 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,200 at the NIH, and 300 at the ...

The Louisiana Department of Health, which runs the state's Medicaid program and scores of initiatives aimed at improving public health, may lose tens of millions of dollars in funding due to ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has ordered authorities to immediately initiate the process for the promotion of employees. In a notification, the health secretariat has asked ...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of employees fired this week from the Department of Health and Human Services and the public health agencies it oversees may be asked to temporarily continue working for ...

The New York State Department of Health is encouraging New Yorkers planning to travel internationally or to states with measles outbreaks to get their measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination ...

health department officials said they were directed to look for spaces to set up Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to provide health care services to the public. “We have been recently given directions by ...