Kennedy remains quiet on 10,000 jobs lost at the nation's top health department
April 2, 2025
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr . offered no new details Wednesday about his massive restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ...Here's where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation's top health agencies
April 1, 2025
Thousands of people responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, monitoring the safety of food and medicine, and ...Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
March 9, 2025
Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and ...Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting 'misinformation and lies'
March 29, 2025
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation’s top health official for allowing “misinformation and lies” ...HHS is losing thousands of workers under Trump administration probationary job cuts
February 14, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agencys roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration’s ...The Latest: RFK Jr. set to appear on Capitol Hill for HHS confirmation hearings
January 29, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings are set to begin Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee ...Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s famous name and controversial views collide in his bid for top health job
January 27, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr . has said vaccines are not safe. His support for abortion access has made conservatives uncomfortable. And farmers across the ...Here's how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to remake the nation's top health agencies
November 15, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how ...Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs
April 17, 2025
A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nations top health agency , eliminating some public health programs ...This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere
April 20, 2025
In her 28 years working for the federal government, Shea Giagnorio provided day care for the children of U.S. soldiers, training for employees and ...Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
April 18, 2025
A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in ...FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
April 18, 2025
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety inspectors who oversee U.S. ...Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
March 27, 2025
In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones ...Hospitals must obtain written consent for pelvic and similar exams, the federal government says
April 1, 2024
Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an ...RFK Jr.'s mixed message about the measles outbreaks draws criticism from health officials
April 16, 2025
As measles outbreaks popped up across the U.S. this winter, pediatricians waited for the nations public health agency to send a routine, but important, ...Translating what Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak
April 15, 2025
When the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endorsed the measles vaccine this month after an outbreak in Texas claimed the life ...RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted
April 12, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent time in tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico this week highlighting ways they are trying to ...Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
April 13, 2025
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease , declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped ...Kennedy says Health and Human Services will determine the cause of autism by September
April 10, 2025
The nations top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism , Health and Human Services ...Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.
April 7, 2025
Shortly before he was forced to resign , the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s ...