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WATCH: Trump says he’ll set 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug prices

By Will Weissert, Amanda Seitz, Seung Min Kim, Associated Press

If a deal is not reached, a new rule will kick in that will tie the price of what the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.

Trump’s HHS urges therapy for transgender youth, departing from broader gender-affirming health care

By Geoff Mulvihill, Carla K. Johnson, Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

This new “best practices” report is in response to an executive order President Donald Trump issued days into his second term that says the federal government must not support gender transitions for anyone under age 19.

Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements on autism

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed.

WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Anti-vaccine advocates, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have for years inaccurately claimed that routine childhood shots may cause autism.

Employees say a plan to reorganize HHS will have health and safety consequences

By Ali Rogin

The Trump administration says the merging and downsizing of some Health and Human Services agencies is aimed at realigning them toward the “core mission” of ending chronic disease. But some HHS workers are skeptical that the restructuring will achieve Secretary…

CDC report finds HPV vaccine is preventing U.S. women from getting cervical cancer, adding to evidence

By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

From 2008 to 2022, rates for precancerous lesions decreased about 80 percent among 20- to 24-year-old women who were screened for cervical cancer.

WATCH: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sworn in as Trump’s secretary of health and human services

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the…

What does the health and human services secretary do?

By Angela Mattie, The Conversation

The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.

Migrant children suffered ‘severe’ sexual abuse under housing provider’s care, DOJ says

By Paul Weber, Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press

Southwest Key, the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children, has engaged in “severe, pervasive" sexual abuse and harassment of children in its care over the past eight years, the Justice Department alleges.

Health secretary Becerra slams Texas abortion pill ruling as ‘reckless’ and ‘not America’

By Hope Yen, Associated Press

The nation's top health official said Sunday that a court ruling threatening the availability of a main drug used in medication abortion was “not America" and he did not rule out defying the judge's order if necessary.