May 14, 2025 | Budget, CDC, DOGE, Healthcare
Ian Karbal The Pittsburgh-area lab responsible for certifying virtually all U.S. government-approved respirators in the country was preparing to shutter for good in June. The Capital-Star reported last month that employees had been told their positions were being...
Apr 17, 2025 | Budget, CDC, DOGE, Healthcare
Ian Karbal – Pennsylvania Capital-Star The Pa. laboratory that certifies all of the country’s NIOSH-approved respirators is on the chopping block. HHS is stonewalling employees who raise questions. Most Americans learned what an N95 mask was during the COVID-19...
Apr 1, 2025 | CDC, Healthcare, HHS, NIH
Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach, Lena H. Sun and Lauren Weber – Washington Post Senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on leave and countless other employees lost their jobs Tuesday as the Trump...
Mar 28, 2025 | CDC, Healthcare, HHS, NIH
Katherine J. Wu – The Atlantic By design, clinical trials ask their participants to take on risk. To develop new vaccines, drugs, or therapies, scientists first have to ask volunteers to try out those interventions, with no guarantee that they’ll work or be free...
Mar 27, 2025 | CDC, DOGE, Healthcare, HHS, Musk, NIH, Vaccinations
HIT Ed: If you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. healthcare system, the best in the world, is being systematically and rapidly destroyed by the Trump/Musk administration. Spending cuts on vaccine development, cancer research, support for state health...
Mar 27, 2025 | CDC, Healthcare, HHS, Vaccinations
Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz and Jan Hoffman – New York Times The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health...
