On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the federal ...

In April, the staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the agency’s ‘Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program’ were all ...

The Milwaukee Health Department said there is no team from HHS or the CDC in Milwaukee responding to the lead contamination ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions from senators about a lead poisoning crisis in public schools in ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, based in Rochester, is sounding the alarm over federal cuts. The CDC was forced to layoff 2,400 employees last month as President ...

Over the past four months, an escalating crisis has unfolded that has included the closure of multiple school buildings, ...

Among those terminated from the agency were members of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, who worked hand-in hand with the local coalition. “We have heard nothing other than ...

RFK Jr. claimed in a Senate hearing that the childhood lead program was still being funded. But staffers remain on administrative leave with terminations set for June.

Kennedy and HHS have said that the government plans to continue the work of lead poisoning prevention and surveillance at the new Administration for a Healthy America, rather than the CDC.

In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible.