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The Department of Health and Human Services has halted millions in grant payments to a maze of organizations, including nine Planned Parenthood affiliates, pending a review of their compliance with federal law.

The Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday began a round of layoffs that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said are needed to streamline the bloated agency and cut costs.

Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Trump administration for clawing back roughly $12 billion in health grants awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back.

The Food and Drug Administration's chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.

The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing "misinformation and lies" to guide his thinking behind the safety of vaccinations.

The death toll from Myanmar's powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake keeps climbing amid rescue efforts.

The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Peter Marks, says he is resigning because he believes Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is putting "his misinformation and lies" ahead of good science.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services confirmed this week that a resident of the state died of rabies following an organ transplant in January.

Utah became the first state to ban fluoridation of public water when Gov. Spencer Cox signed the new law Thursday.