Most shocking to CARD workers was the termination of lead researcher Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, who was announced internally as the organization's next acting director and was expected to bring significant advancements to the research field. "It's just jaw-dropping," an upper-level CARD employee told ABC News of Van Keuren-Jensen's firing.

Volunteers shared personal stories about life with CF while urging members of Congress to protect patients and progress.

The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to US health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of bird flu but a historic measles outbreak centered in West Texas and the worst year for seasonal flu in more than a decade.

The number of workers terminated by the Trump administration at the National Institutes of Health has been revised to 1,165, according to an NIH internal email seen by Reuters on Sunday, down from an initial 1,

Scientists reviewing Musk’s Neuralink are fired – then rehired – from FDA following flurry of DOGE cuts - Around 300 FDA staffers have been asked to return to work after Musk’s DOGE axed thousands of

Termination letters landed in the mailboxes of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health over the weekend, as the Trump administration moved ahead with ...

More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the government-wide cuts to recently hired federal workers ordered by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force.

A two-day meeting aimed at raising awareness among policymakers and public about rare diseases scheduled for the end of the month has been postponed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website showed on Friday.

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to responding to infectious-disease outbreaks.

The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend