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Health secretary aims to close regional offices and establish new division called ‘administration for a healthy America’

The department outlined plans to cut 10,000 jobs, in addition to the about 10,000 employees who left voluntarily earlier this year.

Although alpha-gal syndrome has long been linked to the lone star tick, recent cases suggest other tick species in the U.S. may also be responsible, raising concerns about the allergy spreading to new regions.

Monarez was named CDC’s acting director after serving as the deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health since 2023.

Is shutting down the CDC's HIV prevention division a good idea?

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years

Cases continue to spread throughout the U.S.

There have been hundreds of measles cases reported in the U.S. since the beginning of the year. Here's what you need to know about measles immunity.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, the broader picture of mortality across communities remained frustratingly incomplete.