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FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership

The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been forced out

8:04AM ( 2 days ago )

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation's public health agencies

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health

7:14AM ( 2 days ago )

Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food

The Trump administration says the layoffs of up to 10,000 people at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department are expected to save $1.8 billion annually

7:14AM ( 2 days ago )

Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department have begun receiving notices of dismissal in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people

7:14AM ( 2 days ago )

With tears and tail wags, San Quentin inmates reunite with puppies they raised into service dogs

There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently

12:12AM ( 2 days ago )

Tears and tail wags: Inmates reunite with service dogs they raised

There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently

12:12AM ( 2 days ago )

Thousands of workers at nation's health agencies brace for mass layoffs

As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back

6:40PM ( 2 days ago )

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time

11:01AM ( 3 days ago )

Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they're getting less

Public funding for agricultural research in the U.S. has been declining for the last two decades, a process Trump has rapidly accelerated by freezing or pausing support for a variety of research programs financed by the USDA, EPA and other organizations

9:38AM ( 3 days ago )

Mexico bans junk food sales in schools in its latest salvo against child obesity

Mexico says a government-sponsored junk food ban in schools has taken effect as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics

3:51PM ( 5 days ago )

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