In addition to reductions at agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations, The Times has learned.

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

The agency’s injury center was among the departments that were largely gutted in Tuesday’s wave of dismissals. Read a staff member’s letter to colleagues while they awaited their fates.

The court will decide whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.

The justices handed a win to the Food and Drug Administration in its rejection of applications from makers of flavored liquids used in e-cigarettes.

A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.

A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes.

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican, pressed Dr. Oz on transgender care and abortion, and now says he will vote for the physician’s confirmation to become head of Medicare and Medicaid.

The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.

The Eli Lilly drug caused a major drop in the blood levels of Lp(a), but further research is needed to show that it will prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.