A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

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,

HHS, CDC, FDA, NIH -- to pause all external communications, including weekly scientific reports, health advisories, data updates, and other information. (AP) Meanwhile, the HHS website scrubbed search results for the word "abortion,

The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on public communications from federal health agencies like the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it expects the pause to be temporary.

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.

The order also applies to other health and science agencies, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.

The exact scope and duration is clear, and one question is what will happen to release of CDC data that employers and insurers use in pricing.

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the

In 2025, we may see radical top-down changes to our healthcare system as new heads of the NIH - National Institutes of Health, HHS - Health and Human Services; the CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Trump administration's "short pause" on communications, expected to end on Feb. 1, has affected FDA updates on food contamination investigations.