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 ...

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized the layoffs of thousands of employees after a Supreme Court ruling ...

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 ...

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 ...

During fiscal year 2024 -- October 2023 through September 2024 -- the FDA provided at least some records in response to more than 12,000 requests, according to HHS' annual FOIA report.

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 ...