President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration is set to face the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday morning, and he’s likely to ...

Alignment with National Health Security Goals: GeoVax’s focus on U.S.-based vaccine production supports HHS’s priority of reducing dependency on foreign pharmaceutical supply chains, ensuring ...

The top communications official at Health and Human Services has stepped down after just weeks on the job — as it was revealed he clashed with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the ...

By removing public comments, HHS may be able to enact regulations disproportionately impacting some communities without meaningful engagement of those most adversely affected. “For decades HHS ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a fair amount to say about the measles outbreak in Texas. Much of what he said, however, was demonstrably untrue. By Steve Benen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced some ...

On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a letter rescinding with immediate effect its March 2022 “HHS Notice and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new guidance that provides a narrower definition of sex than is used by scientists and describes sex as “unchangeable.” The new policy is ...

Addressing the assembled staff, Kennedy recalled visiting HHS with his uncle, President John F. Kennedy when he was a boy and being impressed with the scientists for being motivated by high ideals. “I ...

FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox ...

As HHS secretary, Kennedy has some power over abortion access. Anti-abortion groups are ramping up pressure to make sure their policy priorities are enacted, starting with mifepristone ...

RFK Jr. is confirmed, and America is on its way to becoming healthy again . . . maybe? If HHS continues to scrutinize the rise of obesity in this country -- including the overconsumption of ultra ...

Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and ...