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The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

For 13 years, the CDC's "Tips" ads shared real stories and free quitline support. With funding ending, experts worry fewer people may quit.

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Lawyers for the agency’s chief, Susan Monarez, insist that the impasse with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can only be resolved by President Trump.

Women's arteries seem to be stiffer if they have had covid-19, with the same effect not being found among men

Susan Monarez’s lawyers said the ‘attack’ was a ‘warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within’

As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

The end of an era.

Attacks on public health will continue until federal rhetoric changes