The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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The end of an era.

“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.

Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’

With the public release of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “MAHA Strategy” delayed and because his May 2025 “Make America Healthy Again” report fundamentally mischaracteriz...

How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.

The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream ...

This article from the FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.

The final blow to the agency protecting workers from deadly disease

Public health data collection has been halted in several key areas as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashes funding across HHS agencies and departments. CBS News medical co...

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

Dr. Joanne Liu, an N.Y.U. graduate, said the cancellation of her presentation on humanitarian crises was a sign of the climate of fear at U.S. universities.

This past Thursday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a major restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services. The number of civil...

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This is no time to sit idly by. People’s lives are at stake. We have to put our bodies on the line.

Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes r...

USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a $240 million contract to create a new coronavirus vaccine.

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When I began this newsletter, I did not want it to be simply an anti-Trump, “resistance” vehicle. I knew that the second Trump Administration would engage in...