Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response: Reuters

FDA employee found out she'd been laid off by email at 5 a.m.: 'I don't see how this benefits Americans at all'

Employees who track disease outbreaks, conduct medical research, and monitor food safety were among the 10,000 laid off by the Trump administration on Tuesday.

What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation's Health Care Safer

Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Heal…

Here are the real reasons they are dismantling the FDA, NIH, and CDC

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina wrote a powerful post last night listing some of the ongoing carnage at the CDC and FDA. It is truly going to hurt most of us at some point in our lives — right wing, left wing, and the millions of people in between. She then asked...

Veterinarians working on bird flu, pet food safety are fired in HHS purge

Among those laid off were employees in a center that has played a key role in the response to the bird flu outbreak, according to three FDA staffers.

CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Hundreds of federal health care workers learned Tuesday morning that their jobs had been cut, with many turned away at their office doors as the Department of Health and Human Services...