Ahead of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings, experts—and RFK’s own family—expressed concerns about his ...

MATERNAL DEATH RATES FALL — Fewer women died during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period in 2023, but disparities in death rates between white women and women of color widened, POLITICO’s ...

Readers and medical professionals discuss the Trump administration halting communication and travel at HHS. Regarding the Jan ...

President Trump said he would take health agencies in a new direction on the campaign trail and has chosen some controversial ...

The full US Senate will vote on the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr  – a noted vaccine sceptic – after its finance ...

On Aug. 23, 2020, for example, then-FDA Commissioner Stephen ... set out to fortify agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services against political interference.

Brenner, who worked in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, will take the helm of the agency until a new ...

HHS is a massive department that affects many ... One reporter might go to the FDA with questions about a new drug under consideration while another might need to talk to someone at the CDC ...

As confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr. nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, many are ...

Trump prioritizes criminalization over public health in fighting the overdose crisis. Experts say that doesn't work ...

“We know that people who are engaged in abstinence-based treatment are actually more likely to die of an overdose,” said Maritza Perez Medina, the director of Federal Affairs at the Drug ...

For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the HHS secretary declared that the circumstances justified the FDA to issue an ...