Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry... Before they were fired, staff at the Centers for ...

The job of tracking the ravages of the opioid crisis may come down to a bare-bones team of about 150 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose overdose division survived a mass firing ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data last month showing that drug overdose deaths declined by nearly 27 percent in the U.S. in 2024 compared to 2023, I felt three ...

Injury is the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45. But much of the staff at the CDC responsible for studying how to track and prevent injuries were cut during the recent firings.

MINNEAPOLIS — At an event in White Bear Lake on Tuesday, the organization Abbey's Hope reached a milestone by distributing its 10,000th life jacket. It's part of an ongoing effort by Katey and Scott ...

Greene is the Kirk distinguished writer-in-residence at Agnes Scott College and a distinguished professor of practice at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism. On Aug. 8, Centers for ...

A rushed, perfunctory end-of-year meeting by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) Advisory Commission on ...

Before they were fired, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were about to launch a new data system to improve how the U.S. tracks concussions. They were planning to release updated ...

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45. So many people in public health are alarmed that earlier this month, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut ...