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(Halfdark/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — During a press conference on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a plan to start phasing out eight synthetic food dyes in the American food [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to phase out eight artificial food dyes and colorings from [Read More…]

Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The measles outbreak in western Texas has now reached 624 cases, with 27 new infections confirmed over the last five days. Nearly all of the cases are among unvaccinated [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will move to phase out the remaining eight artificial food dyes from America’s food supply within two years, his department announced [Read More…]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Preventive care health benefits provided at no cost to tens of millions of Americans since 2010 under a popular provision of the Affordable Care Act are in the balance Monday [Read More…]

Web page for https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ on April 18, 2025. Via The White House (WASHINGTON) — The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called “Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19,” which makes a [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (MONTCALM COUNTY, Mich.) — Michigan is reporting the state’s first measles outbreak since 2019, defined as at least three or more related cases, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the heels of a new report showing that rates of autism diagnoses have again increased, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was determined to [Read More…]

Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Governors in several states have recently announced plans to eliminate some unhealthy foods from their food stamps programs, creating momentum for a key component of Health and [Read More…]

Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The measles outbreak in western Texas continues to grow, with 561 confirmed cases, according to new data published Tuesday. This is an increase of 20 new [Read More…]

Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. There are [Read More…]

Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images (AUSTIN, TX) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to imply in recent days that the measles outbreak in western Texas was slowing down. In a post on [Read More…]

Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow, with 24 new cases confirmed over the last five days, according to data published Tuesday. Almost all [Read More…]

Will Matsuda for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday he plans to assemble a task force and ultimately change the Centers [Read More…]

Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images (LUBBOCK, TEXAS) — A second child in Texas has died of measles, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. “The school-aged child who tested positive for measles was hospitalized in [Read More…]

Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The measles outbreak in western Texas has hit 481 cases, with 59 newly identified infections confirmed over the last three days, according to new [Read More…]

Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The suit, filed in [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORIK) — About 10,000 people across the United States Department of Health and Human Services were laid off this week as part of a massive restructuring plan. In a post on [Read More…]

(boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Researchers who had millions of dollars’ worth of grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are suing the federal government in the hopes of stopping any further research [Read More…]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More cities and counties across the U.S. are moving to ban fluoride in public drinking water after Utah became the first state in the country to do so. The Miami-Dade County [Read More…]