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Tick season is currently at its peak, and with warm summer weather underway, experts are urging people to take extra ...
It's officially summer, a time for barbecues, the beach—and protecting yourself against the teeny, tiny black-legged deer ...
Some 9/11 first responders left in limbo amid funding cuts 02:19. Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health were laid off Friday, multiple ...
Watch: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate hearing opening statement interrupted by protesters 08:09. The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the ...
The International Safety Equipment Association conducted an advocacy campaign to protect NIOSH. On May 13, Health and Human Services announced that more than 100 employees at the National Institute ...
NIOSH’s mission is to protect the health and safety of America’s workers. In this work, it has been a smashing success. In the years since NIOSH’s founding, occupational deaths in the United ...
The loss of the CDC’s occupational safety office, NIOSH, may have long-term consequences, particularly for H5N1 bird flu response.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health will be absorbed into a new federal office, impacting 400 Cincinnati employees. The future of NIOSH's programs, including research on ...
TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A major round of job cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) could weaken efforts to protect American workers, ...
NIOSH was founded in 1970 as the research arm of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, explained Bruce Bernard, MD, MPH, who retired from NIOSH in 2018 after 30 years of service, in a ...
Much of the work at NIOSH, an arm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had already stalled after an initial round of layoffs on April 1 at the agency ordered by Health and Human ...