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 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded hundreds of millions of dollars for public ...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 ...

It comes as HHS has laid off 40% of staff at the Administration for Community Living, including the regional representative for New York State.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

RFK Jr., the head of HHS, said the agency is taking on a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause ...

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

Cuts to the CDC and FDA, experts say, could reverse hugely successful campaigns to cut cigarette smoking rates and curb teen vaping.

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