A federal judge ordered a seal on the 187-page funding application that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest submitted to keep Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, calling it undisputed that the agency “has not received a FOIA request for records of the awarded contract/grant.”
Read moreAmericans should strive to move more and sit less often each day, according to updated physical activity guidelines released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the first time in a decade.
Read moreEven as a caravan of Central American migrants has become a rallying point for conservative voters, an audit released Wednesday shows that federal agencies remain dazed from the zero-tolerance policy on immigration that the Trump administration rolled out in April.
Read moreThe Trump administration is reportedly considering a new rule which would narrow the definition of gender, a move which could effectively strip 1.4 million transgender people in the United States of hard-won civil rights they only recently began to enjoy.
Read moreThe Center for Food Safety brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar for missing mandatory deadlines to designate certain foods as high risk for foodborne illness and to create record-keeping requirements for facilities that handle them.
Read moreA nurse practitioner sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in federal court, claiming it unfairly charged interest and penalties to increase her student loan debt from $30,000 to $216,000.
Read moreThe government wasted at least $341,000 on travel by ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, including booking charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines, an agency watchdog said Friday.
Read morePlanned Parenthood faced a steep battle Thursday as a Trump-appointed judge heard its challenge to new federal grant rules that emphasize abstinence over contraception.
Read moreMedical providers that rely on public funding to offer family-planning services fired off twin federal complaints Wednesday, calling out the Trump administration’s new focus on abstinence education as hopelessly unsound.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated grants awarded for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Read moreThree regional chapters of Planned Parenthood brought a federal complaint over the termination of congressionally appropriated funding for their Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and the program as a whole.
Read moreFacing tense questioning by lawmakers Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declined to elaborate on issues involving the Trump administration’s cuts to Medicare and Medicaid or how the department will address correlations between gun violence and mental health care.
Read moreConcerned that insurers are starting to take advantage of health care upheaval in Washington, Democrats raked the secretary of Health and Human Services over the coals Thursday about new Blue Cross plans in Idaho.
Read moreFighting federal cuts to health care subsidies that help nearly 1 million poor New Yorkers and Minnesotans, the states served Trump’s Health Department with a more than $1 billion federal complaint Friday.
Read moreThe Senate has confirmed a former drug company executive as President Donald Trump’s second health secretary.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced Thursday that it will create new protections for health workers who have religious and moral objections to certain procedures such as abortion or assisted suicide.
Read moreA nonprofit that helps the indigent pay for health insurance and medication claims in court the Trump administration has placed a “stranglehold” on the charity’s ability to discuss its needs with prospective and current donors, including pharmaceutical companies.
Read moreA Trump administration official tried to block a detained immigrant teenager from getting an abortion even though he knew she got pregnant after being raped, a government document filed in federal court Thursday shows.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Monday nominated Alex Azar, a former George W. Bush administration official and pharmaceutical executive, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Read morePresident Donald Trump has tapped Eric Hargan to serve as acting Health and Human Services secretary.
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