In confirmation hearings for his nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the focus was on domestic issues. The agency has a vast global scope as well.

Wheelan asked Azar what advice he would give the incoming HHS secretary, who has not yet been confirmed. On Nov. 14, 2024, ...

Stefanie Spear, an HHS deputy chief of staff, instructed agency staff Tuesday morning to pause external communications, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Spear, who joined HHS ...

Controversial nominees for positions in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet won major victories this week, as they received the ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) left the Senate floor on Tuesday after delivering a speech about his negotiations with the White ...

The U.S. federal government manages a larger portfolio of risks than any other institution in the history of the world. In ...

President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the ...

Sutton, a former White House domestic policy aide, was a Medicare pricing adviser to Trump’s former HHS secretary, Alex Azar. He left the administration in August 2019 to study at Harvard Law ...

During his presidential bid, Kennedy, a vociferous critic of the pharmaceutical industry, attacked Trump for having Alex Azar, a former executive at the pharma giant Eli Lilly, as his HHS ...

To get a sense of the international issues that the new secretary will hold sway over, NPR interviewed Shalala and another former HHS secretary, Alex Azar, who served in the first Trump ...

To get a sense of the international issues that the new secretary will hold sway over, NPR interviewed Shalala and another former HHS secretary, Alex Azar, who served in the first Trump administration ...