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“As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed,” HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in an emailed statement late Friday.

The top communications official at Health and Human Services has stepped down after just weeks on the job — as it was revealed he clashed with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the ...

On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a letter rescinding with immediate effect its March 2022 “HHS Notice and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new guidance that provides a narrower definition of sex than is used by scientists and describes sex as “unchangeable.” The new policy is ...

Addressing the assembled staff, Kennedy recalled visiting HHS with his uncle, President John F. Kennedy when he was a boy and being impressed with the scientists for being motivated by high ideals. “I ...

FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox ...

As HHS secretary, Kennedy has some power over abortion access. Anti-abortion groups are ramping up pressure to make sure their policy priorities are enacted, starting with mifepristone ...

RFK Jr. is confirmed, and America is on its way to becoming healthy again . . . maybe? If HHS continues to scrutinize the rise of obesity in this country -- including the overconsumption of ultra ...

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Four HHS employees shared the email with NBC News. “On Saturday, you received an email from OPM entitled ‘What did you do last week,’” the email, which came from [email protected] ...