Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fending off criticism from his own base as some of the environmental and anti-vaccine activists who propelled him into politics have said they want stronger action against vaccines and pharmaceutical companies.

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more has dropped.

Democratic governors from 14 states and Guam have launched a new public health alliance.

Federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the weekend.

Four Democratic-led Western states announced joint recommendations Wednesday about who should be vaccinated for seasonal respiratory viruses, including the flu and COVID-19, saying the Trump administration has jeopardized public health by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights.

Gunfire aimed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a man authorities say was angry over COVID-19 vaccines is the latest in a string of violence and harassment directed at health care workers amid hostility lingering from the pandemic.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

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A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two COVID-19 vaccines.

The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.

There’s new uncertainty about updated COVID-19 shots this fall after the Trump administration’s handling of a shot from Novavax.

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers.

A 50-year-old government survey on drug use may be in jeopardy.

Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation.

A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.

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The nation’s top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.

Federal health officials are trying to tell if this year's harsh flu season led to an increase in a rare but dangerous brain complication in children.

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week.