Why Health Care Workers Are Burning Out
The Toll: Nearly five days of poor mental health a month. Federal researchers tracked self-reported mental health symptoms among more than a thousand adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including…
Updates on the CDC Advisory Committee’s efforts to weaken infection control guidance for health care
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently initiated work to update foundational infection control guidance for health care settings. CDC has tasked its advisory committee on…
Health care workers at refugee camp inspired career of Maine’s new CDC director
When Dr. Puthiery Va was growing up in Rochester, New York, her mother told her about the kindness of health care workers while their family was living at a Cambodian…
Products – Data Briefs – Number 461
Differences in work conditions such as job autonomy, job insecurity, and shift work may lead to health disparities in the population (1). Previous research has linked worse health outcomes to…
These jobs have highest suicide rates in the United States, according to the CDC
CNN — Men who work in construction and extraction had the highest rates of suicide in the United States, according to a report published Thursday by the US Centers for…
Mandy Cohen CDC | Former North Carolina health secretary is Biden’s pick to lead Center for Disease Control: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (WTVD) — Former North Carolina Health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen will be the person President Joe Biden picks to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to…
CDC plans to drop five-day covid isolation guidelines
Americans who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to routinely stay home from work and school for five days under new guidance planned by the Centers for Disease…
CDC officials describe intense pressure, job threats from Trump White House
Trump appointees oversaw a concerted effort to restrict immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border during the pandemic, change scientific reports and muzzle top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and…
Doctor took $100K loan to work in northern Manitoba town, left before contract was up: court documents
A family doctor recruited to work for a decade in a northern Manitoba community left after just 16 months and is now refusing and/or neglecting to repay a $100,000 interest-free loan,…
Walensky leaving post as CDC director
CNN — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leaving her government post, the agency and President Joe Biden announced Friday. Walensky’s last…