The request asks Congress to cut funding for several subagencies while calling for new funding for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Administration for a Healthy America. The agency ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in February that the department would stop giving public notice or accepting public comments on a wide array of policies. The sudden shift reversed ...

If HHS now requires placebo-controlled trials before clearing updated Covid-19 vaccines, experts said, that could delay availability of the shots by months, putting vulnerable people at risk.

HHS officials insisted to committee staff that the agency’s massive staffing cuts had been performed “with a scalpel” and “with nuance” but they did not have any numbers of who had been ...

“Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, all new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” HHS said in ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) today announced the development of the next-generation, universal vaccine platform, Generation ...

The administration has said that the HHS restructuring will include consolidating the 28 divisions within HHS into 15. Currently, HHS has different chief information officers for different service ...

Thousands of workers have been laid off at the Department of Health and Human Services and now we can include in that the dismantling of HHS' Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected hospitals’ argument that the federal government doesn ...

SWEEPING CUTS INCOMING — The Trump administration is considering eliminating dozens of programs at HHS amid a mass reorganization of the agency, POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn reports. Under a more ...

According to an internal HHS email reviewed by NBC News, the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) was terminated, without explanation, on April 3.

“We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said on Wednesday. “During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child ...