Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren't infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be ...

The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...

Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared Thursday that “by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, ...

Women retire with 30% less income than men, despite living longer on average, mainly because of caregiving obligations.

Most group A strep infections cause mild illnesses like strep throat — but when that bacteria spreads to the blood and deep ...

Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was laid off this month, multiple officials tell CBS News, wiping out ...

The U.S. agency has not released information on what global programs were cut this week. NPR spoke to current employees who ...

A second child who was diagnosed with measles has died in Texas, marking another death in a growing measles outbreak that has ...

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday. The moves will shrink the Department of Health ...

The layoffs are expected to shrink the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a ...