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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Nyah Phengsitthy |Ian Haney López |Courtney Rozen
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. executed massive cuts across the US Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, days after promising to drastically reduce the size of workforce responsible for health-care coverage, pharmaceuticals, domestic violence prevention, mental health, and pandemic preparedness.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Nyah Phengsitthy |Ian Haney López |Courtney Rozen
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. executed massive cuts across the US Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, days after promising to drastically reduce the size of workforce responsible for health-care coverage, pharmaceuticals, domestic violence prevention, mental health, and pandemic preparedness.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López |Nyah Phengsitthy
Public health advocates worry decisions undermine preparednessMoves seen as consistent with Kennedy’s vaccine skepticismThe latest actions by federal health authorities overseen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccine development and evaluation are raising alarms among public health experts about the nation’s ability to handle a major health crisis like bird flu. The Trump administration Feb.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ian Haney López |Nancy Vu |Nyah Phengsitthy
If President Donald Trump moves to fire thousands of federal health workers, the US’s ability to respond to health crises would be at risk, according to public health watchers and former officials. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are seeing a directional shift under the Trump administration. Trump’s pick to lead the HHS, vaccine skeptic Robert F.
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2 months ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López |Nancy Vu |Nyah Phengsitthy
If President Donald Trump moves to fire thousands of federal health workers, the US’s ability to respond to health crises would be at risk, according to public health watchers and former officials. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are seeing a directional shift under the Trump administration. Trump’s pick to lead the HHS, vaccine skeptic Robert F.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López
US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is advising the incoming Trump administration to look to science in fulfilling the agency’s mission. “Your north star should continue to be science and the evidence. That’s what should drive everything we do,” Becerra said in a Wednesday interview when asked about advice for the incoming administration and its HHS secretary. The interview comes days ahead of Trump’s inauguration and a changing of the guard for the HHS and government agencies.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López
The US Department of Health and Human Services laid out both advantages and risks posed by artificial intelligence as it issued a framework for internal and health-care sector use of the technology. Generative AI investments are expected to increase up to 42% year over year through 2032, according to figures cited in the HHS report issued Friday.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López
A top Biden administration health official is voicing concerns about the incoming Trump administration and expressing worry over civil servants and health policies in the culture war crosshairs. Advancement in abortion protections, transgender health care, and disability rights were among the US Department of Health and Human Services efforts touted by the agency’s Office for Civil Rights director Melanie Fontes Rainer on Wednesday.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ian Haney López
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ian Haney López
The US Department of Health and Human Services is extending through 2029 liability protections for those producing and administering Covid-19 vaccines, in a move to guard against future potential health emergencies. The HHS first declared the public health emergency in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 outbreak and continually renewed it up until May 2023.
