Iowa agencies must justify new positions, but governor's office says 'no hiring freeze'
HHS Director Kelly Garcia said in an email hiring for new positions had been "paused," but the governor's spokesperson said ...
HHS responds to reports CDC will study refuted vaccine, autism link
The Department of Health and Human Services, headed by RFK Jr., is responding to reports that the CDC will begin researching ...
Medicaid cuts would decimate Native American programs, tribal health leaders say
As Congress mulls significant cuts to Medicaid, Native American tribes are bracing for potentially devastating financial fallout.
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This CDC Nominee May Have Been Too Anti-Vax Even for RFK Jr.’s HHS
Republican lawmakers may not have considered avowed anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be too ...
White House withdraws nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to lead CDC
The White House has withdrawn its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to serve as the director of the US Centers for Disease ...
FDA warns of scramble for workspaces and parking spots in Monday return to office
In Thursday's meeting, the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said plans for coming layoffs were ...
Anti-Vaccine Activists Cheer Trump's Nominee for CDC Director
Weldon later appeared in "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," a 2016 documentary directed by Wakefield and produced by Del ...
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White House pulls CDC director pick; HHS office consolidates — 9 updates
1. FDA, NIH nominees clear first hurdle. The HELP Committee voted March 13 to advance both Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, as NIH director in a 12-11 vote and Marty Makary, MD, as FDA commissioner in a ...
Trump v. Maine. How the president is trying to pressure the state into submission.
After an exchange between Maine’s governor and President Donald Trump over transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, ...
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State puts a pause on creating new jobs, agencies must justify new positions
State agencies have put a pause on creating new positions until further notice while new hiring protocols are put in place, ...
Dave Weldon, former lawmaker and vaccine critic, faces Senate grilling for CDC director nomination
Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman and physician, is set to appear at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for ...
Experts give Kennedy low marks as measles outbreak tests him
A worsening measles outbreak in West Texas has spread to two other states, providing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. his first real test of responding to a major ...