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New York Attorney General Letitia James, along with 22 other states and the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against HHS and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing that pulling back ...
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded hundreds of millions of dollars for public ...
In February, the administration restored cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program's budget, but new staff cuts threaten ...
Despite calling some program cuts a "mistake," Kennedy has maintained that no "essential services" or "frontline" jobs would be impacted by HHS's massive restructuring. That was news to Erik Svendsen, ...
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a “massive testing and research effort” aimed at determining the ...
Several agencies will be folded into a new Administration for a Healthy America, Kennedy said. HHS will also drop five of its 10 regional offices, but it said essential health services won’t be ...
Meals on Wheels, which delivers 216 million meals a year to older and disabled people, is largely funded by a federal agency that reportedly lost at least 40% of its staff.
A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday over $11 billion in cuts to public health grants.
RFK Jr., the head of HHS, said the agency is taking on a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause ...
Cuts to the CDC and FDA, experts say, could reverse hugely successful campaigns to cut cigarette smoking rates and curb teen vaping.
At HHS alone, we spend $1.7 trillion annually ... Finally, we are closing five of our highest-cost regional offices in Boston, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle.