Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful force in how the nation accesses health care.

U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the Department ...

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to continue to receive referral fees from a law firm that is suing pharma powerhouse Merck & Co. | ...

HHS nominee previously served as a consultant and as a lawyer for law firms that sued vaccine makers, seeking injury ...

Trump’s executive order on “Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” intended as an attack on transgender American s and disingenuously disguised as ...

The new Trump administration could put a stop to pending litigation on the abortion pill mifepristone and other federal ...

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, ...

Kash Patel to run the FBI? He “probably has a big misstep that is hanging over his head, but ultimately, he is in relatively good shape,” the member said, referring to Patel’s past penchant for ...

Healthcare fraud enforcement continues to be a top priority for federal authorities, with Stark Law violations remaining ...

President Trump's first executive orders on health provide a possible road map that health researchers say could increase the number of uninsured Americans and weaken safety net protections for ...

Two planned events have been indefinitely postponed as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on HHS-related mass communications and public appearances.

The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.