In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has paused public communications until Feb. 1 as Trump appointees take ...

All communication from federal health agencies will be paused until Feb. 1 while the new Trump-Vance administration catches up.

Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

Agencies subject to the Department of Health and Human Services directive include the CDC, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.

Experts say it's common to wait until new teams are in place but is a concern if it means "going back to a prior approach of ...

U.S. health agencies, including the CDC, have paused meetings and communications, limiting public health actions. The delay, stemming from a directive by the Department of Health and Human Services, ...

The Trump administration’s freeze on some government work and communications on health topics pending a political review is alarming the nation’s scientists, who say the move could delay essential ...

The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer ...

Two planned events have been indefinitely postponed as a result of the Trump administration’s freeze on HHS-related mass ...

Dr. Dorothy Fink, the acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, has ...