Senator Gillibrand is demanding answers after mass HRSA firings impact maternal health, rural care, and key health programs in New York and beyond.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, along with 22 other states and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against HHS and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing that pulling back ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded hundreds of millions of dollars for public ...

In February, the administration restored cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program's budget, but new staff cuts threaten ...

Several agencies will be folded into a new Administration for a Healthy America, Kennedy said. HHS will also drop five of its 10 regional offices, but it said essential health services won’t be ...

Meals on Wheels, which delivers 216 million meals a year to older and disabled people, is largely funded by a federal agency that reportedly lost at least 40% of its staff.

Among the “factors” Kennedy said would be scrutinized are ultrasound scans, mold, pesticides, food chemicals, medicines and air and water contamination.

Job cuts affected the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — at all levels of seniority.

In an effort to cut spending, the Trump administration laid off 10,000 federal workers from the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, in a symbolic move, Democratic Senator Cory Booker ...

while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for Healthy America or AHA,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a post on X.

David Geier has repeatedly claimed that vaccines cause autism. Working alongside his father, he has published a number of ...

A school-aged child died at a Texas hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles, marking the second death of a ...