New York senators urged RFK Jr. to reverse CDC cuts citing concerns over the impact to a 9/11 survivor health program.

Demonstrators protest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) layoffs in front of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious,

New York and New Jersey Republicans wrote a Wednesday letter to President Trump citing issues with probationary job cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which have impacted the workforce and a program supporting 9/11 first responder survivors.

New York State's two senators have co-written a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. expressing their opposition to recent

Officials suspect that dozens of dead birds found washed up on the shore of a beach on Long Island, New York, died from avian flu.The birds, including ducks and geese, were found on the beach earlier this week by residents in East Patchogue.

The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is bolstering its partnerships with state and regional health agencies in the face of restricted communication with and flagging faith in federal entities under President Donald Trump.

Your Local Epidemiologist New York explains the latest on New York public health, including a measles outbreak in nearby Bergen County, flu levels remaining high, and the reversal of DOGE's attempt to cut funding to an essential 9/11 first responder health program.

Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

A lot is unfolding at the national level of public health, including the recent firing of about 1,300 federal health agency employees. We’re still learning about the impacts of the layoffs, but the direct impacts on New Yorkers are minimal.

The CDC has restored a $257,000 contract for 9/11-related cancer research after the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, tried to cancel it, officials say.