The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned. On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks wrote that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Health and Human Services Department plans include virtually eliminating some offices focused on HIV prevention as well ...

A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, ...

A major reorganization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—including massive cuts to the federal workforce—threatens scientific progress that drives our economy and improves the ...

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If your blood sugar stays elevated for too long, you may develop diabetic ketoacidosis. If high blood sugar levels are untreated for too long, glucose can build up in the bloodstream, starving ...

Only if too many ketones accumulate in the body may ketosis progress to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life threatening condition. Ketones are a chemical your body produces when it burns stored fat.

The regional offices are part of the Office of General Counsel, whose attorneys are basically the in-house lawyers for HHS. They advise the massive agency on how to write, publicize and enforce ...

HHS declined to comment. Food Fix first reported the message sent to industry. Hockstad also noted in the letter that FDA acting deputy commissioner for human foods Kyle Diamantas, who attended ...

But his ascendancy to HHS leadership has caused a stir in the research community. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control ...

In addition to a $25,000 lump-sum buyout offer, some HHS workers would also receive around two months of paid administrative leave if they chose to accept the buyout.

In a recent interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said "...we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a ...