The Democratic leader of a House panel overseeing the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic said Monday that Trump administration health officials tried to bury damning information in scientific reports on the outbreak.
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Acting on suggestions from hospitals, doctors and patients, U.S. health officials are proposing changes to medical privacy rules that could ease information sharing in crisis situations.
Read moreThe government watchdog group American Oversight sued the Trump administration Wednesday, claiming Health and Human Services, the Federal Drug Administration and the CDC have stonewalled its requests for communications with Pfizer about a coronavirus vaccine.
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“Liberal left,” “fights for gay rights.” A marketing company hired for a $300 million government campaign supposedly about the coronavirus made sure that none of the spots would go to anti-Trump A-listers.
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Michael Caputo, the top spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, plans to take a two-month leave of absence, the department announced Wednesday, following Caputo’s apology for a conspiracy theory-charged rant targeting career government scientists and former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Pharmacists in all 50 states are now allowed to give childhood vaccinations under a new directive aimed at preventing future outbreaks of measles and other preventable diseases.
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A federal judge in New York Monday blocked new rules proposed by the Trump administration’s, which would have removed anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients in programs funded by the Affordable Care Act.
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As the number of confirmed U.S. cases of Covid-19 neared 4 million on Wednesday, the Trump administration announced an almost $2 billion vaccine contract with the New York-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and a German biotechnology company.
Read moreWashington state sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, for “strip(ping) sexual orientation, sex stereotyping and gender identity from the definition of prohibited sex discrimination” in a Final Rule of June 19, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Bostock v. Clayton County, that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status is unlawful discrimination because of sex.”
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House lawmakers confronted White House officials Thursday with a report that the country did not, and more critically will not, command enough protective medical equipment to meet the surge in cases of Covid-19.
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Rattling off a list of ongoing retaliation following his whistleblower complaint, former vaccine chief Rick Bright on Thursday said tweets about him from President Trump smack of witness intimidation.
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President Donald Trump has said otherwise, but the nation’s leading public health experts told Congress Tuesday that they have never been told by the White House to slow down testing for Covid-19.
Read moreThe African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council sued of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar et al. in federal court for failing to ban menthol cigarettes.
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A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld a federal judge’s decision to strike down a Trump administration rule requiring the disclosure of drug prices in TV ads.
Read moreThe Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the FDA, claiming they authorized use of the beta 3-adrenergic agonist/antagonist drug Experior on nearly 100 million cows without properly evaluating its effect on the cows or on human health.
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The government watchdog who warned that hospitals battling Covid-19 were dangerously short on safety and testing equipment told a House panel Tuesday that politics surrounding the pandemic will not impact oversight of the Trump administration’s response.
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(CN) — The federal watchdog investigating Dr. Rick Bright’s whistleblower complaint alleging political cronyism in the White House’s pandemic response
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Rick Bright, the doctor who said Wednesday he was ousted from his role overseeing a federal office tasked with coronavirus vaccine development because he put science ahead of politics, is a perfect stranger to President Donald Trump – at least, to hear the president tell it.
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President Donald Trump recently has taken to calling the United States the “king of ventilators,” ready to service Covid-19 patients domestically and internationally, but federal records show the royal line of succession runs through Europe.
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Some 19 years ago, PPD Development monitored a study for the antibiotic Ketek that one doctor was found to have defrauded with fabricated materials.
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