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The layoffs came in many formats: in emails at 5 a.m., in person when employees tried to swipe their badges at the workplace and found they were deactivated, in messages while they waited in line to ...
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Shares of U.S. drugmakers fell before the bell on Monday after reports that the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official had been forced to resign, the most high-profile exit at the regula...
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The Trump Administration Just Gutted U.S. Health Institutions. What Will That Mean for Americans?
E mployees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) knew that mass layoffs would be coming on April 1. But many did not expect the cuts to be so deep—or the implications of the layoffs to be so potentially detrimental to the health and wellbeing of American families.
Trump administration starts mass layoffs at health agencies
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