CDC's Division of Reproductive Health, crucial for safe birth control guidance, has been significantly downsized, potentially endangering women's health. The move has removed key personnel responsible ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing mass layoffs and ...

HHS said layoffs are expected to save $1.8 billion annually — about 0.1% — from the department’s $1.7 trillion budget, most of which is spent on Medicare and Medicaid health insurance ...

The U.S. government continues to end contracts related to the $5 billion Project NextGen initiative, this time terminating funding for an Atlanta biotech’s lead COVID-19 vaccine program that’s ...

Authors cited in a document circulated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as justification for changes ...

A building on the CDC campus in Atlanta. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images. By Chelsea Cirruzzo. June 11, 2025. ... Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS.

An official who oversaw the recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control has resigned. Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos resigned on Friday. “My career ...

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

CDC rehires 450 employees cut in HHS restructuring, ... Roybal campus in Atlanta, May 30, 2025. Megan Varner/Reuters "It's like Dunkirk when many civilian hands helped save the army.

This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network and is tasked with preventing, detecting, reporting, and responding to cybersecurity incidents at HHS. “It is the department’s ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has lifted a stop work order on Vaxart’s phase 2b trial testing out an investigational COVID-19 vaccine pill, with the biotech resuming plans to ...

HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard declined to say why CDC personnel working on the contraception guidelines and other reproductive health issues were fired, or answer other questions raised by KFF ...