Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, undersecretary of health in the office since April 2023, will take over as the agency’s secretary on ...

Massachusetts Health and Human Service Secretary Kate Walsh is retiring after two and a half years in the role. Gov. Maura ...

Mass. Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh speaks at a naloxone training event on July 8, 2025.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down, the Healey administration announced Friday. Gov. Maura Healey ...

The judge said the evidence “has not revealed a reasoned explanation” for the agency’s action.

Mass firings and restructuring at the US Department of Health and Human Services that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mass firings hit speed bump at HHS By SOPHIA CAI, ADAM CANCRYN, LAUREN GARDNER, BEN JOHANSEN and IRIE SENTNER 03/31/2025 06:14 PM EDT Presented by ...

The steep cuts are largely attributable to new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who took the agency's top post in February.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began issuing layoff notices Tuesday as part of a major overhaul, according to the Associated Press. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aims to ...

The mass layoffs initiated by HHS this week, including in the upper echelons of the NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts warned.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the mass layoffs carried out at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) likely went against the law and there is sufficient evidence to support ...