19 Apr, 2026

Inside Kennedy’s Rise at HHS: Meeting MAHA Priorities for Trump

WASHINGTON — On Independence Avenue, inside a brutalist gray building considered by many to be the ugliest in this city, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. built a monument to his family. In the well-lit, royal blue hallway leading to his private offices, framed historic American flags are interspersed with pennants representing the campaigns and slogans of […]

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HHS ends the NIH program aimed at diversifying the biomedical workforce

The Ministry of Health and Social Services ends a national institutes of Health Grant program which supports students from marginalized backgrounds in biomedical sciences. HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced the elimination of the program – The minority biomedical research support program – in a document published Monday at the Federal Register. Kennedy […]

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HHS seeks to strip thousands of unity rights workers

NEW YORK – The United States Ministry of Health and Social Services has moved to strip thousands of employees of the Federal Health Agency for their collective negotiation rights, according to a union that has qualified illegal effort. HHS officials confirmed on Friday that the department ends its recognition of unions for a number of […]

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Stat Health News: 988, assistant HHS candidate, “IVF to three parents”

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every day of the week with free morning towers of stat. Register here. As a bicycle novector, statistics on the deaths of pedestrians and cyclists in the fourth article of today have definitively annoyed me. If you drive, pay attention to people on bikes and on foot. […]

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