Department of Health and Human Services

The administration awarded a contract for a COVID-19 database to TeleTracking Technologies using a process reserved for innovative research. Its CEO had links to the New York real estate world.

A major Florida health system with six hospitals must pay over $2 million after federal officials determined its HIPAA compliance program was in disarray…

Federal authorities said Tuesday they've broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of…

As the partial closure of the government continues, here's a look at the affected programs that have a bearing on health and health care.

The Trump administration on Wednesday released a pair of rules that will allow employers with religious or moral objections to contraception to offer…

Overdose deaths started to level off near the end of 2017 and are "finally bending in the right direction," says Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, citing early data.

The audit has been called a political gesture to placate anti-abortion groups that oppose use of the tissue. Fetal tissue has played a part in developing vaccines and medical treatments.

The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or…

The new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gotten a big salary reduction.A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human…

Military service. Bathroom use. Job bias. And now, health care.The Trump administration is coming under fire for rewriting a federal rule that bars…