Apoorva Mandavilli

6 days ago | sltrib.com | Karoun Demirjian |Apoorva Mandavilli

The Trump administration is eyeing about $40 billion in cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services' budget next year, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times, as the White House charges ahead with plans for drastic changes to the agencies that regulate food and drugs, protect Americans from disease and research new treatments. The proposed cuts laid out in the preliminary budget memo would reduce the department's budget from about $121 billion to about $80.4 billion.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Karoun Demirjian |Apoorva Mandavilli

An internal memo proposes carving out $40 billion from federal health agencies while eliminating dozens of programs. Congress has ultimate appropriation authority.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

The Health and Human Services Department cut billions of dollars to state health agencies, including funds needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization. Kennedy said in a televised interview Wednesday that he was unaware of this widely reported development. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Apoorva Mandavilli

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good. During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching, sometimes subtle steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety, public health experts say.

2 weeks ago | afropages.fr | Apoorva Mandavilli