The federal government is Allegheny County’s third-largest employer, but hundreds of employees for an agency responsible for ...

More than 400 employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will be laid off this summer.

The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

The lawsuit claims that the Department of Health and Human Services is unable to carry out vital functions due to staffing ...

Billions of dollars of cuts and the loss of 20,000 employees have left the massive federal department "unable to perform ...

Local NIOSH priorities ranged from firefighter cancer to radiation exposure. The future of its programs is now unknown.

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of ...