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As new infectious threats emerge worldwide, a key US health agency is quietly stepping away from language tied to pandemic planning.

More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came Friday. The ...

In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause all public communication from the Department of Health and Human Services created uncertainty and anxiety among biomedical ...