More than 40 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences workers in Durham received a layoff notice this week. Then, some learned they could return.

In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit with DOGE pink slips.

The Trump Administration began terminating thousands of staff and purging some of the top leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services. It included several key agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration,

Wall Street nosedived for a second straight day on Friday, with the Nasdaq Composite confirming a bear market and the Dow Jones Industrial Average entering a correction, as an escalating global trade war spurred the biggest losses since the pandemic.

At a regional HHS office in Rockville, MD, workers at the CDC, NIH, and FDA were affected by layoffs. Some employees ... or comments about Tuesday’s mass firings, but on Thursday it provided ...

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.

As a further update to our alert from March 27, the Trump Administration began mass layoffs at US health agencies on April 1.

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya ’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency — including the country’s top infectious-diseases official — were removed from their posts. The unprecedented move comes amid massive cuts to research at the NIH.