Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful force in how the nation accesses health care.

The importance of heeding medical science; worry over Trump's executive order against refugee admissions; tax cuts; and more.

Devdutta Sangvai, former president of Duke Regional Hospital, was tapped by Gov. Josh Stein to lead the department as North ...

Judge’s opinion temporarily restores websites while administration continues its review of gender language and content.

The Republican senator from Maine said she will vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next secretary of U.S.

A U.S. Senate committee will vote Tuesday on whether to advance President Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, ...

The Department for Health and Human Services is in a communications pause; it has been since last week. HHS oversees several ...

A US federal judge for the District of Columbia ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to ...

If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with ...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services launched a Title VI antidiscrimination investigation into Harvard on Tuesday over pro-Palestine messaging worn by Harvard Medical School ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cleared his first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official as the Senate finance committee ...