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.

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

The exact scope and duration is clear, and one question is what will happen to release of CDC data that employers and insurers use in pricing.

As of Jan. 22, the incoming Trump administration has frozen most communications routinely posted by the Department of Health and Human Services, effective until at least Feb. 1. There has been no ...

Experts say it's common to wait until new teams are in place but is a concern if it means "going back to a prior approach of ...

Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.

Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.

An 'immediate pause' has been ordered on any regulations, guidance, announcements, press releases, social media and website posts until approved by a political appointee.

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee." ...

If lawmakers approve Gov. Kristi Noem’s proposal to cut the state tobacco prevention fund, anti-tobacco advocates said more children are likely to use tobacco and nicotine products, more adults will ...

President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered federal health agencies like the FDA and CDC to pause external communications, ...