Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear as President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services before the Senate Finance Committee for the first of two confirmation hearings.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies for their ongoing studies,

President Donald Trump's first week in office came with big changes to U.S. health agencies, including the pausing of all external communications and banning travel.

The Trump administration continues its deluge of executive orders that directly affect science and research, just days after being sworn in. Following the executive orders (EOs) taking the United States out of the Paris Agreement and World Health Organization and the scientific nonsense in the EO on trans and non-binary people,

The Trump Administration has frozen many federal health agencies’ communications with the public until at least the end of the month.

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

Kennedy is nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, a position that would give him enormous control over public health in America.

President Donald Trump's administration has placed a freeze on information being released from government health agenc

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories,

The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.

Dr. Dorothy Fink, the acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, has instructed the heads of every federal health agency to stop public communication.