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 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” ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...The Latest: Business leaders warn Trump tariffs will raise prices for US consumers
April 2, 2025
President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping tariffs Wednesday , saying “our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered” by other nations. The aggressive ...The Latest: Sen. Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech at over 24 hours
April 1, 2025
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record ...There's a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here's what you should know
April 1, 2025
More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum ...The Latest: Vance visits Greenland as Trump presses for a US takeover of the island
March 28, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that the country change its approach as ...RFK Jr.’s first month as health secretary: Touting French fries and casting doubts on vaccines
March 13, 2025
There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ’n Shake with Fox News host Sean Hannity, raving about ...