New NC health secretary reveals priorities: improving healthcare access and child welfare
Devdutta Sangvai, former president of Duke Regional Hospital, was tapped by Gov. Josh Stein to lead the department as North ...
What does the health and human services secretary do?
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.
White House preparing order to cut thousands of federal health workers, WSJ reports
The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, ...
WBUR9d
As Department of Health and Human Services faces communications pause, what's the impact?
The Department for Health and Human Services is in a communications pause; it has been since last week. HHS oversees several ...
PBS2d
GOP Sen. Johnson says Musk’s dismantling of USAID is ‘just the tip of the iceberg’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services cleared the Senate Finance Committee ...
Alaska Public Media6d
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from ...
US forms task force to battle antisemitism, focusing on schools and campuses
The Department of Education said it was investigating five universities for allegations of antisemitic harassment. Read more ...
White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers
The executive order could come as soon as next week, if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans, according to people ...
Virginia Mercury2d
‘A scarlet letter’: States aim to end stigma of doctors seeking mental health care
Virginia was first state to enact a law mandating a program that provides physicians with 24/7 confidential mental health ...
What Does the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Do?
If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with ...
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise ...