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1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Celine Gounder

Some HHS agencies could disappear The Department of Health and Human Services has transferred $500 million from research into next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, redirecting the money to a single vaccine project linked to the Trump administration's former acting head of the National Institutes of Health.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Alexander Tin |Celine Gounder

7 hours agoTrump starts talking about Harlem when asked about Harvard funding freezeDonald Trump began answering a question about Harvard University by speaking about Harlem, a neighbourhood in New York City, as he joined a NewsNation town hall via phone on Wednesday night (30 April). When asked by Stephen A. Smith to explain his administration’s threat to withhold funding from the university, the president started talking about an entirely different location.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Celine Gounder |Nicole Brown Chau

More employees at the National Institutes of Health are expected to be laid off in the coming days, multiple federal officials say, less than a week after an initial wave of cuts gutted many offices within the health research agency. The NIH was initially supposed to lose about 1,200 scientists, support staff and other officials as a result of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s restructuring. It is unclear how many additional employees will be targeted for cuts.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Sara Moniuszko |Celine Gounder |Nicole Brown Chau

Syphilis is back on the rise across the United States after being nearly eliminated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the Navajo Nation, a solution to curbing the now national epidemic is emerging. The sexually transmitted infection that can lead to serious health problems if left untreated. Syphilis cases skyrocketed in the U.S. as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's STD prevention budget dropped, data shows.

2 months ago | cbsnews.com | E.D. Cauchi |Celine Gounder

CDC's airplane testing seeks to prevent a pandemic In the past year, over 135 million passengers traveled to the U.S. from other countries. To infectious disease experts, that represents 135 million chances for an outbreak to begin. To identify and stop the next potential pandemic, government disease detectives have been discreetly searching for viral pathogens in wastewater from airplanes. Experts are worried that these efforts may not be enough.