U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order beginning the year-long process to leave the World Health Organization on his first day in office.

President Donald Trump has decided to put all federal health agencies on hold until his Department of Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his confirmation hearing. The Washington Post reported that dozens of current staffers have been instructed to halt all external communications,

Federal health agencies were ordered to pause all communications this week, but these Washington health organizations are still running.

Washington state already has some of the nation's strictest gun control laws. But some legislators want to make them even tougher, including by possibly requiring permits to buy firearms. The big picture: Washington's firearm death rate has increased in recent years,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the returning Trump administration told these agencies to stop talking to the public—for how long, no one knows.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state healt

The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.

The Trump Administration has placed a communications embargo on critical health agencies, including HHS, FDA, and CDC, suspending updates on data, publications, and health advisories. Concerns over censorship,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in 2022, Weldon will need to be confirmed by the Senate before starting in the position.