Barack Obama, the former Illinois senator and two-term commander-in-chief, has kept busy since he left office in 2017.

A South Carolina Senate committee has rejected the Republican governor's nominee to be the state’s top doctor after hearings ...

This month marks five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was circulating for months, likely ...

It’s not often that I leave a theater performance so engulfed in emotion that I have to collect myself before leaving the theater.

Key figures who work with the health program were apparently swept up in the dismissals of 10,000 Department of Health and ...

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony ...

Live updates and the latest news as Democrat wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Republicans win House seats in Florida and ...

Public health leaders looked to UNC-Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric to end the pandemic. Their critics blamed it on him.

Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) asked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify before the ...

WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies today, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, with security guards barring ...

On Tuesday, several senior leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were put on leave, including the top ...

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically ...