El gas monóxido de carbono, que es invisible e inodoro, puede ser mortal. Puede matar a las personas en sus casas mientras duermen, filtrándose sin ser detectado desde los generadores. Puede acumularse en las paredes de las cocheras cerradas, saliendo de los autos que los residentes dejan prendidos en busca de calor o electricidad durante…
More than 200 luxury cruise ship passengers caught norovirus on a monthlong transatlantic voyage that won’t officially end until Sunday, U.S. health officials said. A new outbreak report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention tracked 224 of 2,538 passengers who became ill from the virus while on board the Cunard cruise line ship…
Syphilis is back on the rise across the United States after being nearly eliminated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in the Navajo Nation, a solution to curbing the now national epidemic is emerging. The sexually transmitted infection can lead to serious health problems if left untreated. Syphilis cases skyrocketed in the U.S. as the…
Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple officials said. The process of fulfilling FOIA requests from reporters, advocacy groups…
At least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. Around 873 staff are expected to be cut from…
The Trump administration plans to shrink the workforce of the Department of Health and Human Services by nearly a quarter, the department announced Thursday, as part of a major restructuring of the department. “When combined with HHS’ other efforts, including early retirement and Fork in the Road, the restructuring results in a total downsizing from…
A person with a confirmed measles infection may have exposed Amtrak passengers on a train to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, officials at the D.C. Department of Health said. Health officials said Monday in a statement that the agency “was notified of a confirmed case of measles in a person who visited multiple locations in D.C….
Just hours after opening its new program for American researchers called Safe Place For Science in reaction to Trump administration policies, Aix Marseille University received its first application. Since then, the university in the south of France known for its science programs, has received about a dozen applications per day from what the school considers…
President Trump has decided to pick Dr. Susan Monarez to be the new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sources familiar with the decision tell CBS News, making permanent the acting role she has served at the public health agency in recent months. Monarez would be named in place of Dr….
5 years on, what we learned from the COVID pandemic response – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s been five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, driving billions of people indoors and killing more than a million people in the U.S. Dr. Jon LaPook examines what lessons we can take away from that…