Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

Trump wants to shrink welfare programs and rename HHS: Report

Naomi Lim · June 6, 2018 8:43 pm

This shows an emergency room entrance at a hospital in Santa Clarita, Calif.

Fewer patients die, get sick in hospitals from medical mistakes

Kimberly Leonard · June 5, 2018 5:56 pm

Spending on Medicare drugs soars despite drop in prescriptions

Robert King · June 4, 2018 9:18 pm

Democrat denied entry to immigrant detention center

Mandy Mayfield · June 4, 2018 4:49 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The CDC said in a press release on May 19, 2016, that at least one violation was uncovered in nearly 80 percent of public pool and hot tub inspections in five states.

CDC would lose control of emergency drug stockpile under House bill

Kimberly Leonard · June 4, 2018 4:01 am

Signage is displayed outside a Planned Parenthood office.

Democratic governors threaten to sue Trump over planned abortion restrictions for family planning grants

Robert King · May 31, 2018 6:45 pm

President Trump signed into law the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 on Friday. It reauthorizes a program in which drug and device makers pay the FDA a fee for every new product application, and the agency uses that money to hire more people and speed up approvals. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FDA tackles ‘gaming’ of brand-name drugs

Kimberly Leonard · May 31, 2018 5:45 pm

Federal judge rules HHS illegally nixed teen pregnancy prevention grant

Robert King · May 29, 2018 9:31 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., left, accompanied by Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., right, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill.

Senate to take up Trump’s call to lower drug prices in June

Robert King · May 29, 2018 4:00 am

Trump administration says reports of 1,500 lost immigrant kids ‘completely false’

James Langford · May 29, 2018 2:18 am

A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in this file photo.

Trump administration adds proposal to involve more parents in minors’ abortion, birth control choices

Kimberly Leonard · May 22, 2018 10:17 pm

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio holds up a security form as he asks questions during the committee's hearing on recent cyber attacks at OPM, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The OPM is under fire for allowing its databases to be plundered by suspected Chinese cyberspies in what is being called one of the worst breaches in U.S. history.

Energy and Environment

Ohio Republican Mike Turner urges HHS to release study on dangerous chemicals after EPA refuses to

Josh Siegel · May 22, 2018 9:02 pm