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.

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

Dr. Dorothy Fink, a 1999 Westmont Hilltop High School graduate, has risen to the highest levels of the federal government as part of President Donald Trump’s new administration. She is the U.S.

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

President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled more than $180 million in contracts over 48 hours, including a ...

Nearly three dozen Democratic senators, including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, have written a letter demanding an ...

OPINION: Please consider Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of Health and Human Services so he can consider the ...

Senators must vote against RFK Jr.’s confirmation to protect science, safeguard public health and ensure a committment ...

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

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

A federal judge paused cuts that the Trump administration had made to funding for public health research, but Monday’s ...