Department of Health and Human Services officials expect most of the agency's roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired Friday under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of nearly all probationary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is eliminating 1,300 probationary workers as part of an unprecedented cutting of jobs across the federal government. | The federal government is laying off thousands of health agency workers and others this week.

Nearly 1,300 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of America's most notorious vaccine skeptics, will run the country's leading health agency.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, will lead the nation’s largest health and human services agency after today’s US Senate vote. Many physicians and public health experts opposed the controversial nominee over Kennedy’s history of spreading misinformation about vaccines,

This story has been updated.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now Health Secretary of the United States. | The full Senate voted 52-48 today to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.