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    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is a cabinet-level department of the federal government. It sets guidelines for the private healthcare system and provides essential human services, such as funding medical studies. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the 26th Secretary.

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    Secretary of Health and Human Services
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Leadership

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has served as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2025.

    Key facts

    Created
    April 11, 1953, as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfaresource
    Renamed Department of Health and Human Services
    October 17, 1979source
    Budget
    nearly $2 trillionsource
    Secretary
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., 26th Secretarysource

    WYDE coverage of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    WYDE Newsroom has published 11 articles about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, from Jan 9, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the regulator in 9 stories, the subject of 1 story and a donor in 1 story. The most recent is Superpower Opens $149-a-Month BPC-157 Pre-Orders Two Days After HHS Eased Peptide Enforcement.

    Healthcare

    Superpower Opens $149-a-Month BPC-157 Pre-Orders Two Days After HHS Eased Peptide Enforcement

    Superpower will charge $149 a month for compounded BPC-157 and TB-500 and $199 for MOTS-c, shipping in late November. FDA's drug center recommended against listing all three, and the policy allowing the sales is not FDA approval.

    Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

    AI

    University of Vermont Wins a Record $38 Million to Build 'AI Twins' of Critically Ill Patients

    The U.S. Department of Health award, UVM's largest research grant ever, funds digital twins that let doctors test treatments on an AI model before trying them on critically ill patients.

    Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read · Donor

    Healthcare

    Trump Signs an Executive Order to Cut Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and Split the MMR Shot

    The Monday order keeps recommendations for 11 diseases but limits hepatitis A and B and meningococcal vaccines to high-risk groups. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, says the president does not have the expertise to make these changes.

    Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator

    Healthcare

    The FDA Proposes Mandatory Safety Reviews for New Food Ingredients, Closing the GRAS Loophole

    A proposed rule announced Monday would end food companies' ability to self-declare new ingredients as generally recognized as safe, requiring safety data to reach the FDA before new compounds reach shelves.

    Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator

    WYDE Weekly

    A Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals.

    WYDE Weekly: the CLARITY Act misses its Senate deadline, SNAP enrollment drops by 4 million, HHS moves to erase 1,400 Head Start rules, and researchers use AI to design 16 working viruses.

    Aug 8, 2026 · 8 min read · Regulator

    Legal

    A Federal Judge Orders HHS to Pay $65 Million for Unaccompanied Children's Legal Aid by Midday Friday

    Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin gave the government hours to release funds withheld since December, while a $150 million replacement contract heads to a Texas firm with almost no immigration lawyers

    Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator

    Healthcare

    HHS Decertifies Kentucky's Network for Hope After Finding Patients May Not Have Been Dead

    Federal reviews of 351 cases from 2021 to 2024 found poor neurological assessments and questionable consent practices at the organ procurement group covering Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia. The response in Congress was bipartisan and immediate.

    Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator

    Food Policy

    HHS Proposes Erasing About 1,400 Head Start Rules and Cutting the Overhead Cap From 15% to 5%

    The notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register August 7 with comments open through October 6. HHS says the overhead change frees $2.2 billion for 200,000 more seats. Providers say those same dollars pay for disability support and meals.

    Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator

    Healthcare

    A New Executive Order Pushes Regenerative Agriculture and Chemical-Exposure Research

    President Trump's order directs USDA, HHS, and EPA to expand regenerative farming and study cumulative chemical exposures in the food supply, part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.

    Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator

    Government & Fraud

    FBI Arrests 15 in $50 Million Southern California Hospice Fraud Crackdown

    FBI arrests 15 in $50 million Southern California hospice fraud crackdown. Operation Never Say Die targets sham facilities billing Medicare for non-terminal patients.

    Apr 3, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator

    WYDE Weekly

    The Public Market for Nonprofits

    January 8 Update

    Jan 9, 2026 · 4 min read · Regulator

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