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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A defense company that bungled an enormous Iraq War contract for health care centers has landed a $40 million award to build a 200-bed field hospital for patients battling coronavirus.
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The Trump administration’s two-for-one deregulation order survived a legal challenge Thursday by states that said it threatened a greenhouse gas rules and an education program for low-income children, to name a few.
Read moreCovenant Medical Center and 52 other hospitals sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he failed to properly calculate payments for inpatient hospital days for Medicare patients.
Read moreFamily Equality brought a federal complaint over Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s refusal to enforce an Obama-era program that “prohibits discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity in grant programs funded by HHS.”
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Four months after the Trump administration removed a nondiscrimination barrier on health or welfare organizations seeking federal grants, a trio of advocacy groups filed suit Thursday for an injunction.
Read moreA whistleblower complaint filed on Thursday claims the Department of Health and Human Services failed to follow safety protocols when health workers met American evacuees of the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read moreOn Thursday, the state of California and a woman’s health clinic asked a federal judge to stave off new abortion-related regulations, saying they would imperil the health care of thousands of low-income women who rely on such clinics.
Read moreTwelve hospitals, in four states, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he illegally reduced the number of residents they could claim per year under a Medicare program for hospitals to train medical residents.
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