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The sweeping changes drew criticism from Robert Califf, who served two stints as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. “The FDA as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders wit...
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Mass layoffs begin at HHS, some employees turned away after showing up to work
Employees at the Department of Health and Human Services began to receive notices of mass layoffs on Tuesday, days after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 people would lose their jobs, including employees working on tobacco addiction, mental health and workplace safety.
The impact of mass layoffs at HHS: What does it mean for new drugs, food safety?
In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, thousands of workers, specialists, and scientists were slapped with Department of Government Efficiency pink slips Tuesday morning.
Mass HHS layoffs sow ‘chaos,’ make US less safe, experts say
The mass layoffs initiated by HHS this week, including in the upper echelons of the NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts warned.
Predawn firing spree at HHS leaves agencies gutted and Congress frustrated
The cuts gutted or wholly shut down regional offices, the agency’s IT infrastructure, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and even an agency that mobilizes after natural disasters, like hurricanes: the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response.
Inside yesterday’s anxiety-inducing, ‘crude and callous’ HHS cuts
HHS layoffs started yesterday. It wasn’t an April Fools’ Day joke. It was early yesterday morning — like 5 a.m. early — when the chaos began. Federal health employees star
Trump administration begins firing thousands of HHS employees
The Trump administration began firing thousands of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday as part of a plan announced by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS; sweeping cuts extend to CDC, NIH, FDA: Recap
Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention closed.
HHS Job Cuts: Entire CDC Team Focused On Infertility And IVF Is 'Gone'
The National Infertility Association, spoke with ForbesWomen editor Maggie McGrath about the job cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and what it means for the division of the CDC specifically dedicated to studying infertility and IVF.
4 key takeaways as Trump’s sweeping HHS layoffs begin
Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. on Tuesday. The purge comes on the heels of HHS
Thousands of employees fired amid mass layoffs at HHS
Thousands of employees of the Department of Health and Human Services were terminated Tuesday as the Trump administration continues to shrink the size of the federal government.
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Mass HHS layoffs include HIV/AIDS prevention, policy teams
Tuesday began a series of mass layoffs targeting staff, departments, and whole agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who reportedly plans to cut a total of 10,
Mass Layoffs Begin at RFK Jr's Department of Health
Layoff notices began Tuesday, impacting workers across multiple agencies. The FDA will lose 3,500 jobs, the CDC 2,400, the National Institutes of Health 1,200, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 300, according to figures released by HHS.
City loses federal help for MPS lead contamination probe after mass layoffs announced by RFK Jr.
CDC employees helping the city investigate lead poisoning at MPS buildings were swept up in mass federal layoffs announced by Robert Kennedy Jr.
Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies
The notices came just days after President Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies.
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