Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's laboratories for sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis, multiple officials tell CBS News, disrupting ongoing work to respond to outbreaks.

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

Employees at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are accusing the Trump administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of laying off Black CDC workers at higher rates than other racial demographic groups.

Staffing cuts at the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention and Department Health and Human Services have advocates against domestic violence concerned.

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday. The moves will shrink the Department of Health and Human Services to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff.

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

Some personnel and programs affected by sweeping reductions at federal health agencies on Tuesday will be reinstated, including a program at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that monitors lead in kids,

Idea to put battery-powered lights in World Trade Center stairwells saved thousands on 9/11. It wouldn't have happened without the Epidemic Intelligence Service, writes an alumnus.

A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health agencies this week.

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging,