A U.S. attorney last week filed a letter of support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit over cuts at the ...

President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

Protests were held in Morgantown and at the U.S. Capitol in hopes of salvaging hundreds of jobs cut from NIOSH.

While shopping for N95 masks, keep the following in mind: Numerous N95s meet NIOSH’s requirements, but the CDC recommends leaving surgical-grade masks for medical professionals. Excluding those ...

More than a month after roughly 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown received their “reduction in force” letters, workers and ...

Senators spar with Kennedy on cuts to biomedical research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The health secretary said he brought back 328 employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ...

The “confidential” DOGE memo lists “statutory minimum requirements” for several CDC offices, including NIOSH, and details which programs are mandated by Congress and for which the health ...

That was in 1974, when Tennant was protected by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH. For decades it offered free screenings for black lung, a chronic disease caused ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

For more than 50 years, NIOSH has been the gold standard for testing and certifying respirators in the U.S. Without NIOSH, companies can’t get new respirators approved for use. We can’t make ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of ...