Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

Cars honked in support of the CDC as they drove down Clifton Road, and protestors’ chants and cheers were deafening. Emory University could be especially affected by NIH changes, as the University ranked among the top receivers of federal funding in 2023,

The Department of Government Efficiency's major funding and job cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is having a catastrophic effect on patients across the country who rely on federal programs to treat devastating diseases like cancer,

Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets in January 2025, the Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

Staffing reductions across U.S. federal health agencies—including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

Tom Frieden says cuts to the public health workforce aren’t the way to make America healthier. The Trump administration’s recent decision to purge hundreds of federal health workers from some of the nation’s key federal health agencies is raising concerns among experts who feel the move could make the U.

For the report, "Cancer statistics for African American and Black people, 2025," researchers analyzed the most recent cancer data from the National Cancer Institute and the CDC. Here are five notes from the report: Researchers estimate there will be about 248,

HHS saw further job cuts on Feb. 15 across agencies including the CDC, FDA and National Institutes of Health, including around 1,000 NIH terminations, after a Trump administration order to eliminate "nearly all" HHS probationary employees,

Staffing reductions across U.S. federal health agencies-including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

The Trump administration has declared war on the health sciences by nominating Drs. Bhattacharya and Weldon to head NIH and CDC. They will damage US disease and vaccine research in

In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Wednesday, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been let go. About 10% of the CDC's staff have been removed ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.