News

Kennedy Accuses F.D.A. of Drug Industry Influence That Barred Alternative Remedies
The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address ...
RFK Jr. Warns FDA Staff of ‘Deep State’ in All-Hands Meeting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Food and Drug Administration staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an ...
Key takeaways from RFK Jr.'s interview on measles vaccine, food dyes, weight loss drugs and more
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News in an exclusive interview. Here are some highlights.
FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...
FDA guts division that trains staff and health-care professionals on key practices like opioid safety, avoiding drug errors
The Food and Drug Administration has gutted a division responsible for training agency staff and outside health-care professionals on an array of public health, regulation and saf ...
Medical Marketing & Media5d
HHS layoffs hammer public health agencies, gut federal comms teams
Significant layoffs across the FDA, CDC and NIH are ushering in a new era of public health under the Trump administration.
RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts
Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a ...
CDC doctor monitoring bad COVID vaccine reactions may have deleted files, alleges Sen. Ron Johnson
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the ...
Response to multistate measles outbreak hampered by unique set of challenges
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the ground in Texas for the second time this year, as an ongoing ...
Food Safety Was Slipping in the U.S. Then Came Mass Layoffs
Even before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) eliminated 10,000 jobs on April 1, people who watched the ...
Trump admin live updates: Admin 'covertly' froze FEMA funds, judge says
ABC News can confirm that layoffs have begun at the Department of Health and Human Services, including at the Food and Drug ...