Federal health programs face deep funding cuts under a draft budget proposed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. The Washington Post, citing an internal budget document and a ...

Then she arrived on a more galvanizing emotion: anger. Boim and other probationary employees fired from the CDC scrambled to get more information about their situation. "Everybody was so scared, first ...

Africa CDC and WHO have updated their joint Continental Response Plan for the mpox emergency as the disease continues to affect new areas. The revised strategy focuses on controlling outbreaks ...

Washington, DC: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Mr. Pablo Lopez Murphy, visited Maputo from February 19 to March 4, 2025, to discuss policy implementation under the ECF arrangement.

Seven federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks say they are worried that thousands of biological samples—from human urine to frozen rodent organs—may be left to rot in a ...

The CDC report, which includes data from 16 study sites across the U.S. including Maryland, found an overall prevalence of autism of 1 in 31 (3.2%) among 8-year-olds in 2022. The Maryland study ...

Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as "Bill of the Month" and KFF Health News' "What the Health?" She previously ...

RFK Jr. links autism rise to ‘environmental toxins,' contradicting CDC findings April 16, 2025 04:17 Poll: Voters sour on Trump’s handling of economy, tariffs and inflation ...

Measles cases are most likely being underreported in the United States, according to a senior scientist at the CDC. So far in 2025, 747 cases have been recorded in the U.S. with about three ...

About 1 in every 31 children was diagnosed with autism by age 8 in 2022, up from 1 in 36 in 2020, according to the CDC report published Tuesday. Rates varied widely by gender, race and geographic ...

The CDC's data was from 14 states and Puerto Rico in 2022. The previous estimate — from 2020 — was 1 in 36. Boys continue to be diagnosed more than girls, and the highest rates are among ...

Mozambique more than doubled its workforce of trained and active community health workers – from 3,380 in 2018 to 8,300 in 2022 The number of technical health staff assigned to primary care services ...