Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra advised students to approach the current political climate as a “teaching moment” at a moderated Q&A last Thursday.

Eight recent former leaders of federal health agencies under the Biden administration -- including former NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, MD; former CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure; former ...

Notably, the NPRM was published under the Xavier Becerra administration at HHS and prior to the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as the new secretary of HHS. The current administration has not ...

At the heart of the conflict is a fight over adding gender dysphoria to the list of conditions accommodated with disability services in schools.

Then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra had pushed his staff to release migrant children to sponsors as quickly as possible, likening the ideal turnover rate to an “assembly line,” the New York ...

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Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

including former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. "Please know that the time and energy that you have invested in your work does not go unrecognized," the letter stated. "We appreciate all your ...

Despite investigators briefing Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra’s chief of staff and deputy secretary about these horrific cases, the Biden administration allegedly took “no meaningful steps ...

Following the June 2022 Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Biden’s head of HHS, Xavier Becerra, made open statements and produced recommendations to help hospitals protect the health of ...

Kennedy Jr. to lead the department as secretary. If confirmed, Kennedy would succeed Xavier Becerra, who served as HHS secretary during the Biden administration. More than 91,000 people worked for ...

But the C.D.C. now falls under the purview of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F ... autism is connected to vaccination, Xavier Becerra, health secretary to President Joseph R.