The layoffs followed a March announcement by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called for a major department overhaul.

"Given the Supreme Court's ruling, HHS is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its RIF. Accordingly, you are ...

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked ...

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized the layoffs of thousands of employees after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings ...

HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it ...

The FDA, CDC, and NIH policies go beyond a January directive from the Office of Personnel Management that ordered agencies to purge contracts and content related to gender identity and turn off ...

HHS laid off the entire CDC office handling that agency's FOIA requests and significantly cut staff at the NIH and FDA, according to eight current or former federal workers.

Key Takeaways. About 200 NIH employees, including top brain scientists, still face layoffs. Several award-winning researchers have not had their termination notices reversed ...

Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public ...

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.

In March, Kennedy announced a sweeping restructuring of HHS that included cutting 3,500 additional jobs at FDA and 1,200 at NIH. And just two weeks ago, 250 employees at NIH were let go.NIH has also ...