HHS sued by 23 states, D.C. over $11 billion in cuts to public health funding
The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, calls the HHS cuts to public health grants illegal.
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The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island, calls the HHS cuts to public health grants illegal.
A Department of Health and Human Services official delivered an ultimatum to Dr. Peter Marks: either resign or be fired.
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy will cut 3,500 jobs from the Food and Drug Administration and 2,400 from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified Friday of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment.
Catholic Charities alleges its has not been paid since the Trump Administration moved to freeze to federal funding, but later rescinded the order.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his department's top communications official of quitting to avoid being fired.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.
The move comes amid a government-wide effort to cut probationary workers by the Department of Government Efficiency task force led by billionaire Elon Musk.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cousin urged senators to reject his nomination as health and human services secretary.
The state has six weeks to decide how they want to pay back the $16 million, according to the federal agency.
Kennedy has a long record of criticizing vaccines, including spreading misleading claims about their safety.
Paxton accused the federal government of attempting to "undermine" the state's law enforcement capabilities.
The next round of free COVID test orders will ship starting the week of Nov. 27.
The White House said a proposed rule would allow DACA recipients to qualify for Medicaid and coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
Fewer than 90,000 Texans bought health insurance in the new federally subsidized marketplace in the past month. But U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials say some 295,000 Texans have bought insurance on the marketplace since October.
As the number of human cases of West Nile Virus continues to increase, so does spraying against the mosquitoes who carry the disease.
Tuesday marks the hottest day of the year so far and the earliest DFW Airport hit 106º since the dreaded, scorched days of 1980.
Siding with Planned Parenthood, a district judge in Austin Monday ordered the state to temporarily lift its ban on Planned Parenthood affiliates from receiving funding as part of the Women's Health Program.
Under a state law taking effect Wednesday, more than 100,000 North Texas women won't be able to get care at Planned Parenthood clinics -- which treat about 44 percent of those participating in the Texas' Women's Health Program.
A battle over abortion could kill a program providing 130,000 women in Texas with free healthcare.
The volatile mix of religion, reproductive rights and politics has a new flash point.
The federal government has rejected a request by the state to be excluded from a new law that would limit how much health insurance companies can spend on overhead.
County Judge Clay Jenkins vowed to scrutinize no-bid contracts more closely Tuesday after the court endured a weeks-long search to locate emergency communication equipment that was thought to be missing or misplaced.
