Policies

The federal agency funds $50 million of efforts to reduce HIV in Georgia, which had the second-highest rate of new cases in 2022.

City and state health agencies need the collaboration of CDC experts to help investigate local disease outbreaks and other threats to public health.

As House Republicans seek $880 billion in cuts, leaders of community hospitals and health centers in New York warn that cuts to Medicaid could mean layoffs and service reductions.

Small businesses use a tiny portion of the NIH’s budget to bridge the gap between research and consumers, like making devices that reduce pain without opioids.

Here are the decisions Georgia lawmakers made on public health bills ahead of a crucial legislative deadline.

NYC Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest municipal health care system, serves more than 1 million New Yorkers each year, the majority of whom are on Medicaid or uninsured.

The university is joining a growing list of top research universities that plan to freeze or limit hiring because of concerns about federal research funding cuts.

The Trump administration’s sudden firings have gutted training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments.

The council wants the state to reverse a 2019 cut to the city’s reimbursement rate for essential public health services.

A 2019 budget cut to NYC’s state reimbursement rate has curtailed public health services, advocates say. This year, they’re trying to get the funds restored.

The local health department hopes to build a new South Cobb Public Health Center, but $3 million of federal funding has yet to be approved.

Seven CDC employees assigned to the local agency have been fired, Dr. Michelle Morse told the City Council.

Threats from the Trump administration and Congress to cut federal health dollars could have significant impacts for New York, lawmakers and advocates warn.

The governor wants to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize those with severe mental illness in an effort to stem violence on streets and subways. Some mental health advocates and legal experts have qualms.

New York-Presbyterian has removed references to gender-affirming care for young people from its website and won’t address questions about those services, days after a Trump order threatening federal funding to hospitals.

Chaos at the federal level, as President Donald Trump takes office with moves to cut spending, are injecting uncertainty into the state’s budget process.

The unprecedented freeze on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has sparked concerns about political meddling.

Controversy over raw milk reflects the push-pull the Trump administration faces in rolling back regulations and offering consumers more choices. The CDC recommends against consuming raw milk, and the FDA bans its interstate sale.

Two Senate committees will question Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week on how his disproven views of science and medicine qualify him to run the $1.7 trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system.

Trump has rescinded a long-standing policy not to arrest people without legal status at or near sensitive locations, including schools, churches, and hospitals.