HHS said layoffs are expected to save $1.8 billion annually — about 0.1% — from the department’s $1.7 trillion budget, most of which is spent on Medicare and Medicaid health insurance ...

ATLANTA — Health leaders at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are cautiously optimistic there will be a limited amount of coronavirus vaccines ready by the ...

The changes come as part of a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and backed by President Donald Trump.

The U.S. government continues to end contracts related to the $5 billion Project NextGen initiative, this time terminating funding for an Atlanta biotech’s lead COVID-19 vaccine program that’s ...

CDC employees protest job cuts outside Atlanta headquarters after surprise layoffs by Health and Human Services. Layoffs affect scientists, doctors, researchers, and senior staff; HHS says move ...

The country’s top health official said Monday during a visit to Georgia that he will be “vigorous” in defending the availability of a key drug after a court ruling threatened access to the ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra confirmed in a statement Thursday that an employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was one of the victims of a … ...

Sylvia Burwell, head of the Health and Human Services, on open enrollment, Medicaid expansion in Georgia, and the CDC’s continued fight against Ebola.

A building on the CDC campus in Atlanta. ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images. By Chelsea Cirruzzo. June 11, 2025. ... Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS.

The remaining offices will be based in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, and Philadelphia. These offices oversee the enforcement of healthcare regulations across 27 states and five territories.

Georgia lawmakers, NAACP ask HHS, IRS to investigate Wellstar's Atlanta hospital closure. ... The Marietta, Georgia-based system closed its 460-bed Atlanta Medical Center on Nov. 1, ...

This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network and is tasked with preventing, detecting, reporting, and responding to cybersecurity incidents at HHS. “It is the department’s ...