"The Health and Human Services Department is moving hundreds of senior career staff to a new civil service classification that will make it easier to fire them."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/rfk-civil-service-job-protections-00925102
#HHS #OMB #Project2025 #CDC #OPM #workers #WorkersRights #USpol
"The US began w/d funding for the #WHO in early 2025 *forced:🚨org to slash its budgets for 2026/27. WHO: now greatly underfunded -had to shed huge#s of staff -disastrous.”
“#HHS🚨Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious #Diseases to Stop Res. NIAID’s Integr Res Fac is one of the few fed facs chgd with studying #Ebola. All of its work was put on indefinite pause by #RFKJr’s dept.”
I've lost track of how many ways Trump/Rs are KILLING us‼️#Deaths #USPol
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2527072-the-ebola-emergency-shines-a-light-on-the-urgent-need-for-new-vaccines/
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
…His senior role at #HHS places him in charge of offices responsible for #FamilyPlanning, #WomensHealth, #InfectiousDisease policy & the US #PublicHealth Service Commissioned Corps, the uniformed health service of >5,000 public health officers who work across the federal government & deploy during public health emergencies. As head of the Public Health Service, Christine also serves as a four-star admiral in charge of the uniformed service.
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HHS Is A Chaos Engine: Marty Makary Out At FDA
HIPAA Security Rule Overhaul Nears, But Will Regulators Meet May Deadline?
As the HHS Office for Civil Rights prepares to unveil a major overhaul of the 23-year-old HIPAA Security Rule, concerns are mounting about meeting the May deadline. Director Paula Stannard urges healthcare organizations to consider the steep cost of inaction, emphasizing that the benefits of proposed modifications…
#HipaaSecurityRule #Healthcare #Hhs #OfficeForCivilRights #RegulatoryCompliance
"Across a vast and multilayered government, in which many leadership positions must be confirmed by a Senate that shares only a narrow partisan majority with the administration, it’s typical for some roles to remain unfilled or be occupied by interim leaders. But critics say the level of upheaval in the current HHS is unusual and the lack of scientific expertise among its leadership is concerning."
https://apnews.com/article/makary-fda-cdc-hhs-rfk-leadership-health-231e18e04e7b5a35395742390ca4b66a
#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #HHS #NIH #CDC #leadership #USpol
Dr. Marty Makary's resignation from his post atop the Food and Drug Administration is widening a leadership gap that already existed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Makary's Tuesday departure leaves the FDA with only an acting commissioner. Meanwhile, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has an acting director. And there's no Senate-confirmed surgeon general a year and a half into Republican President Donald Trump's second term. Critics say the level of upheaval at HHS and the lack of scientific expertise among its leadership are concerning. HHS hasn't responded to a Wednesday request for comment.
"Artificially intelligent scribe software is part of a swarm of AI-powered tools coming to healthcare. Clinicians and patient-safety advocates say government regulations are not well constructed to guard against the threat that the new technology will miss or obscure important details of patients’ conditions, potentially harming them."
#healthcare #AI #LLM #EMR #EHR #HealthIT #technology #datasec #infosec #HHS
For years, the Department of Health and Human Services built standards to make sure electronic health records were user-friendly and offered transparent advice to doctors. Now they’re relaxing those standards, and doctors and critics in the hospital industry are worried.
Complicated; "In debates, #Becerra:🚨grilled re whereabouts of 85K #children *went “missing” while he ran #HHS.
DIDN'T VANISH⚡➡️but rptg found serious breakdowns in how HHS vetted sponsors & safeguarded kids. HHS: resp for kids when➡️1st cross the border. Caseworkers care for them in shelters, vet➡️adults *take them +follow up with a call. Early in the Biden admin so many kids: entering the C➡️Becerra began urging staff mems to move them more quickly thru shelters..."
#USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/xavier-becerra-migrant-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.tNIW.w6i8Fhh5XTT6&smid=url-share
"States are asking a federal court in Texas to declare unconstitutional a part of federal law that requires states to provide services to disabled people in their communities, rather than in institutions, when appropriate."
https://19thnews.org/2026/05/gender-dysphoria-section-504-lawsuits-disability-rights/
#PublicHealth #disabilities #hospitals #NursingHomes #schools #HHS #courts #USpol
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