Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public health. For this article, she interviewed dozens of people who have worked ...

Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost ...

The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s ...

This piece was originally published before the bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday, July 4, 2025.

To no one’s surprise, Republican Congressman Robert Bresnahan has shattered his vow to protect Medicaid, SNAP and the people of his district ...

Garcia, who represents Long Beach, was recently was chosen by his Democratic peers for the minority party's top job on the ...

Five Democrats and three Republicans are running in a July 15 primary election in southern Arizona to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva.

Despite rehiring hundreds of FDA, CDC and NIH employees, the Department of Health and Human Services is still a skeleton of ...

Letter writers discuss importance of vaccination, President Trump’s Iran strikes and the threat to our democracy.

The health secretary’s approach to the condition gives the impression that two decades of research simply never happened.