The loss of the CDC’s occupational safety office, NIOSH, may have long-term consequences, particularly for H5N1 bird flu response.

In late March, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that NIOSH would be moved from the CDC to a new entity called the “Administration for a Healthy America” as part of a “dramatic ...

Among the layoffs to NIOSH's World Trade Center Health Program were nurses and scientists, two CDC officials said. Staff dealing with enrollment, member services and other administrative duties ...

CDC reinstates workers who screen coal miners for black lung disease. ... NIOSH on Tuesday temporarily reinstated workers in the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, ...

The HHS responded to the story on Saturday, saying CBS “got it wrong.” There were no NIOSH employees terminated, it said. “A required notice was sent to NIOSH employees, following the agreed ...

It was not clear whether the new cuts will also come from NIOSH or elsewhere within CDC, though NIOSH had few staff remaining after the Trump administration had gutted nearly the entire office.

Two experts from NIOSH — Neu and an industrial hygienist — were first sent to Texas on March 20 at the state's request. They found a number of issues at hospitals in Texas that had been ...

A CDC plan to help Texas schools curb the spread of measles infections was also scrapped due to the layoffs. NIOSH was started in 1970 as part of the same law that created another federal agency ...