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 ...

An executive order from President Trump freezes all mass communication from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unless it’s approved by the White House.

Past editors of MMWR and prior leaders of CDC lamented the lack of publication, and its potential impact on the distribution of vital public health information. "This is a concerning precedent that ...

"I don’t hate the president, and I pray for him," the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde told NPR's "All Things Considered." ...

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 ...

Stephen Miller, a close adviser to President Donald Trump, on Wednesday declared that “no one is above the law.” And while few would disagree with that, in concept, Miller’s critics were quick to ...

The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on public communications from federal health agencies like the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it ...

Rescinded job offers, delayed health updates and confusion over cutting government checks upend business as usual across Washington.

President Donald Trump’s first moves on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act signal his administration’s willingness to make major changes to the government programs.

The president claims that overdose deaths are really 300,000, when the government reports 90,000. “They’re killing our people ...

The Biden presidency is over and not a minute too soon. Biden‘s five decades of public life has always been one of a mediocre ...

President Trump announced he's pulling the U.S. from the WHO. Now researchers are scrambling to understand what that means for the H5N1 bird flu pandemic.