The HHS proposed a budget that is 26% lower than last year. It involves $33 billion less than last year. So I'm sure one of the questions for Kennedy is going to be, how he's going to balance ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy helped clinch Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to lead the Department of Health and Human Services months ago ...

An HHS statement said medical doctors, medical ethicists and a methodologist contributed to the report, however the agency declined to provide names for its contributors. Gender-affirming care ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is requiring all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials in a policy change the agency described as a "radical departure ...

Kennedy Jr.'s overhaul of the Department of Health and ... who requested anonymity to speak freely. HHS has laid off a significant share of workers at those offices, or in some cases all of ...

Kennedy Jr. distorted scientific research to argue that ... rates are real,” Kennedy said during the press conference. The HHS press release on the CDC report also noted the recent trend, ...

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The senators expressed concerns that cuts could diminish quality of health care. A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

with the implication that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was fulfilling his pledge to ‘make America healthy again" (“U.S. health officials seek to phase out artificial dyes from the food ...

Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested ... to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told The Washington Post in response to questions ...