On December 17, 2024, the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued its second favorable advisory ...

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to ...

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the ...

A hearing on RFK Jr.'s appointment as HHS secretary has stalled; physicians protest his appointment and Trump has paused communications.

HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will divest his interests in several biopharma companies, including CRISPR ...

Abortion information is disappearing from federal government websites, signaling potential changes in abortion unde ...

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial ...

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has asked federal health agencies to pause external ...

The Department of Health and Human Services Jan. 3 announced it is awarding approximately $306 million to support the federal government’s H5N1 bird flu response. Of that, the Administration for ...

HHS said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's risk assessment of bird flu remains low for the general public. But HHS and the USDA will continue close collaboration with industry and ...

HHS plans to modify HIPAA to better safeguard the healthcare industry from hackers. The agency issued a proposed rule Dec. 27 with plans to publish more details and open it up to public comments ...

According to HHS, large breaches caused by hacking and ransomware have increased 89 percent and 102 percent, respectively, since 2019. “This proposed rule to upgrade the HIPAA Security Rule ...