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Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased…

Experts attribute increase in case numbers to improved diagnostics as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr insists ‘epidemic’ underway

Newly released federal statistics show an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, marking another jump in a long string of increases

Many Americans were relieved when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act in place following the law’s third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision permitted widely supported policies to continue, such as ensuring health coverage regardless of preexisting conditions, allowing coverage for dependents up to age 26…

As part of Trump’s administrations ‘efficiency’ drive, staff running decades-old program for energy assistance laid off

As the Trump administration cuts thousands of federal jobs, some fired workers worry about health agencies' ability to protect the public.

A small office within Health and Human Services that sets the federal poverty guidelines every year has reportedly been dismantled, with no one left to do the calculations.

There is one area to which experts say Trump’s administration unquestionably has already done real damage: public health.

World Trade Center healthcare program for people affected by attacks is in turmoil over Trump officials’ overhaul

Cuts are already making it harder for people with disabilities to live in their communities

A longtime critic of vaccines, Kennedy has previously expressed the view that childhood jabs cause the developmental condition.