Key labs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down amid recent layoffs, raising concerns about tracking and controlling serious infections like viral hepatitis and ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's laboratories for sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis, multiple ...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted ...

RFK Jr. Photo: sweejak via Flickr CC, Gonorrhea bacteria – Medical Illustrator: Alissa Eckert, CDC via Unsplash The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fired dozens of employees who ...

The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

As cases of the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora rise across the US, former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the country’s response is being severely hampered by ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

All the scientists were fired from the only STI lab in the US that tested how well antibiotics were working against drug-resistant gonorrhea strains. HealthDay News — Key labs at the US Centers for ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's laboratories for sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis, multiple ...