Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against ...

W ith respiratory-disease season in full swing and a bird flu outbreak rapidly evolving, the new Trump Administration has ordered federal health agencies to secure White House approval before ...

Medicare will soon negotiate prices for 15 more drugs as part of an effort to reduce costs for seniors and people with ...

On his first day back at the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from ...

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

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

The CDC manages updates on bird flu in humans, and the FDA is responsible for sending alerts related to food safety outbreaks ...

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting health secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters ...

The HHS’ Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, or ICCPUD, published its draft report on associations between health and alcohol intake, finding that even moderate ...

A conservative group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence is urging Republicans to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...

The Trump Administration has placed a communications embargo on critical health agencies, including HHS, FDA, and CDC, ...

President Donald Trump rescinded Executive Order 14087, which aimed to develop programs to lower prescription drug costs for Americans. • The order had initiated pilot programs to reduce drug prices, ...