NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses. The ...

In late February 2020, nine lab officials at the CDC gathered around a whiteboard to show an FDA expert how they had made the nation’s first coronavirus test — and to try to figure out why it failed.

KFF Health News reported Aug. 21 that the organization planned to overhaul its lab operations after mishaps with its COVID-19 test. The CDC’s Laboratory Workgroup — a panel of lab researchers, public ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Trump administration closed a CDC lab that tracked STIs, including drug-resistant gonorrhea. Experts painted ...

ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suffered significant losses in its Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS) program due to federal layoffs, according to the Associated ...

In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state’s public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected ...

Encased in spacesuit-like gear needed to protect them from the world’s deadliest viruses, four scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped into their lab’s decontamination ...

The CDC announced Thursday that the organization is currently investigating how one of its laboratory workers could have become infected with Salmonella while conducting lab work involving the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating how one of its own lab workers became infected with a strain of salmonella that was being used as part of their job, the agency ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report on its investigation into an incident that occurred in December 2014 at the agency’s Ebola ...