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The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cuts

Other lives: Anti-apartheid doctor who fled to the UK after being imprisoned in South Africa

Chaotic cuts to CDC hit expert leadership and programs that surveil, test and research sexually transmitted diseases

President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin have announced their intent to reconsider dozens of current regulations in an effort to loosen standards originally imposed to protect the environment and public health. But it’s not as simple as Trump and Zeldin just saying so.

Public health experts have raised alarms about the potential spread, condemning the doctor who continued to practice while being infected with the highly contagious virus.

Needle and syringe programs are a proven public health intervention that provide free, sterile injecting equipment to people who use drugs. By reducing needle sharing, these programs help prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis C and HIV and minimise life-threatening bacterial infections.

The United States has de-emphasized infectious disease programming in favor of prioritizing chronic disease.

Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased…

After Daisy Hildebrand died of measles, her death was made public first by Dr. Robert Malone, a vaccine skeptic who blamed the hospital for fumbling her care. Daisy’s father told The Texas Tribune he never to spoke to Malone.