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Trump signs healthcare executive order that includes a win for pharma companies
U.S. President Donald Trump directed his health department on Tuesday to work with Congress on revamping a law that allows ...
US measles cases are undercounted, experts say, but real numbers are proving hard to pin down
During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared ...
Harvard’s president rejected Trump’s demands. Here’s how other university leaders have responded to the White House
Tensions are rising across American academia as the Trump administration froze over $2 billion in multi-year grants and ...
L.A. will set aside $3 million to help owners of fire-damaged homes test their soil for lead
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to allocate $3 million to help owners of fire-damaged homes test ...
Kennedy’s deep HHS cuts threaten HIV/AIDS response
In drastically cutting down its public health workforce, the Trump administration is potentially undoing decades of work combatting the HIV epidemic and delaying upcoming advances. When Health and ...
Inside Trump’s plan to halt hundreds of regulations
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation ...
Division of Public Health director for Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services resigns
The director of Nebraska's Division of Public Health within the Department of Health and Human Services announced her resignation Tuesday.
Trump Admin Freezes More Than $2 Billion In Grants To Harvard
"The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights," Harvard's president Alan Garber ...
Autism Rate Continues to Rise Among Children, C.D.C. Reports
While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.” ...
From libraries to health care: What Kentucky risks losing amid federal funding cuts
Millions of dollars are on the line in Kentucky as the Trump administration seeks to drastically reduce federal government spending.
US autism rate continues to rise, CDC says, pointing to greater awareness and better screening
A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the autism diagnosis rate has increased among ...
Gene Hackman's home found to be infested with rodents after wife died of hantavirus
The New Mexico Department of Public Health found multiple dead rodents, nests and droppings at Gene Hackman and his wife’s Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, according to records obtained by Fox News Digital ...