HHS sends all employees a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer
The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees were emailed Friday night with the offer of a “voluntary separation incentive ...
MSNBC15d
RFK Jr.’s rough start as HHS secretary gets even worse amid Texas measles outbreak
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a fair amount to say about the measles outbreak in Texas. Much of what he said, however, was demonstrably untrue. By Steve Benen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced some ...
Newsweek17d
HHS Warns Against Elon Musk Email: May 'Be Read by Malign Foreign Actors'
Aila Slisco is a Newsweek night reporter based in New York. Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and ...
Roll Call21d
Senate Democrats press HHS over FDA firings
A pair of Democratic senators are pushing back against the Trump administration’s decision to terminate a host of positions at the Food and Drug Administration, raising concerns that the firings ...
FactCheck.org21d
FactChecking RFK Jr.’s First Interview as HHS Secretary
Four days after his interview with Ingraham, Kennedy repeated the claim in an address before HHS staff, linking his claim to chronic disease. “We are, in fact, the sickest nation on Earth ...
The Hill21d
HHS postpones meeting of key CDC vaccine panel, one week after RFK Jr. sworn in
Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has been postponed, the department confirmed. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was set to meet Feb ...
The Boston Globe22d
CDC vaccination committee meeting postponed days after RFK Jr. took over at HHS
Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary. HHS director of communications Andrew Nixon confirmed Thursday the meeting was postponed, and the ACIP meetings website also ...
CNN22d
HHS issues new definitions of terms like ‘sex,’ ‘man’ and ‘woman’ that critics say ignore science
HHS says the action was prompted by Trump’s January 20 executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which ...
STAT22d
HHS’ national health security division must be preserved
But not all HHS agencies are created equal, and some deserve to be modified with a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer. The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is a small ...
Catholic News Agency23d
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to study abortion pill safety questions
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated that he plans to investigate safety concerns related to the abortion pill mifepristone during an interview on Fox ...
ABC News23d
'People are going to get sick': Fired HHS scientists protest federal terminations
The protest comes as thousands have been laid off across HHS and President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency try to shrink the size of the federal government.