An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

A big step forward in COVID-19 treatment and a breakthrough for a Florida-based nonprofit blood center serving the southeast. OneBlood just became the first blood center to get full FDA approval to ...

So Nightly asked health and public health leaders — what questions do they want senators to ask Kennedy at the hearings? Responses have been lightly edited. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve ...

The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

The secretary of Health and Human Services is a member of the president’s cabinet of advisers, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. The secretary advises the ...

The secretary of Health and Human Services nominee wrote in an ethics agreement that he would keep receiving contingency fees.

Purdue Pharma will pay more than $7 billion for the corporation's role in fueling the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma reached a ...

A Texas woman was sentenced Wednesday in Oregon to a year of probation after she admitted to using fake names to smuggle an unapproved drug from China and Hong Kong into the United to treat a fatal ...

Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...