As they entered office at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2021, Xavier Becerra and his allies had a plan to restore Americans’ faith in the nation’s beleaguered public health ...

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal workforce, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on WAMU’s “1A” on Jan. 8. KFF Health ...

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra made the announcement, following President Biden’s major disaster declaration. “We will do all we can to assist California officials with responding to the health ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra warned against the impact of a preemptive presidential pardon for people like Dr. Anthony Fauci just hours after President Biden said in an ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Jan. 3 announced it is awarding approximately $306 million to support the federal government’s H5N1 bird flu response. Of that, the Administration for ...

When it became obvious his candidacy wouldn’t change the outcome of the race, Democrats followed his moves even less closely — until Trump tapped him to lead HHS, catapulting him back into the ...

HHS said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's risk assessment of bird flu remains low for the general public. But HHS and the USDA will continue close collaboration with industry and ...

In a Dec. 16 blog post, Steven Posnack — HHS principal deputy assistant secretary for technology policy and principal deputy national coordinator for health IT — said that “in comparison to ...

The HHS wants to update the HIPAA security rule for the first time in more than a decade to bolster healthcare cybersecurity, regulators said late last month. The Office for Civil Rights ...

Trump’s own former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said flatly that having Kennedy in charge of HHS “will cost lives in this country.” The conservative Wall Street ...

HHS plans to modify HIPAA to better safeguard the healthcare industry from hackers. The agency issued a proposed rule Dec. 27 with plans to publish more details and open it up to public comments ...