Health and Human Services Department spokesman Andrew Nixon defended the cuts — which were listed on the department’s website — saying “HHS is taking ... aligned with NIH and HHS ...

If confirmed, Bhattacharya would lead a $48 billion arm of HHS that functions as the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, according to The Washington Post. 1 "The NIH is the ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Dubbed the "Richardson Waiver" after the former health secretary ...

Here is the latest we know about the reorganization at several agencies within HHS, based on conversations with more than a dozen health officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The directive follows the Trump administration’s broader agenda to gut efforts to document and address climate change.

The mass email went out to a “broad population of HHS employees,” landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces. HHS is one of the ...

increasing overall transparency and seeking new solutions to combat chronic disease. At that hearing, Democrats criticized the administration’s freezing of NIH grants and workforce reductions ...

The "Make America Healthy Again" commission held an inaugural meeting on Monday with USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and HHS Secretary Robert ... the U.S. food supply without proper notification ...

by telling his audience via video link on February 18 those unwilling to adopt transparency and openness “can retire.” HHS, a $1.6 trillion agency, includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ...

Why it matters: The Stanford economist envisions an NIH ... Background: CHAI’s model cards are designed to comply with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s AI transparency ...

The Health and Human Services Department is abandoning a Nixon-era practice that offered transparency ... same time, HHS is inviting legal challenges to policies carried out without public ...