The Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day. The employees ...

The agency says the changes are necessary to maintain its efficacy and relevance, with a senior official calling the current department organization chart “bloated.” The changes are in ...

This article presents a period blood chart and discusses what the different ... blood mixes with cervical fluid. Using hormonal birth control can lower estrogen levels in the body, which can ...

The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs ...

Contraceptive guidelines ... The programs have lower profiles than the CDC’s infectious-disease investigations of the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, or last year’s E.

The consequences of the Trump administration’s purge of thousands of federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services on April 1 are so enormous, they can be difficult to grasp.

The U.S. fertility rate grew by less than 1% -- close to a record low -- as 3,622,673 babies were born in 2024, according to ...

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica in a written statement that the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.” ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. After Hurricane Ian, as ...