National headlines for Feb. 19, 2026, cover major shifts in federal health and education policy. NIH Director Jay ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

Bhattacharya will continue in his current duties as NIH director until a permanent CDC director is nominated and confirmed, ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who directs the National Institute of Health, is taking over as acting director of the Centers for ...

Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald ...

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. National Institutes of Health ...

Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya will serve as interim director of the Centers for Disease ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of the CDC’s Covid-19 response, will now lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

“He has been named also the acting director of the CDC…It puts him in charge of the two most important institutions in the ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya arguably shouldn't have either job. Experts say trying to hold down both is “a recipe for disaster.” ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been picked to also serve as acting director of the CDC, a White House official ...