Georgia officials halted all in-state poultry sales, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $590 million to Moderna to develop vaccines to protect people from flu strains in bird

The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.

Washington, D.C., is being thrown into a moment of uncertainty as Biden administration officials begin to depart and make way for the new Trump 2.0 administration. As of Monday, FDA commissioner Robert Califf,

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, health officials said.

According to biographies posted to the department’s website Monday, Alicia Rouault is the department’s new associate deputy assistant secretary for technology policy and chief technology officer, Kristen Honey is the department’s chief data officer, and Meghan Dierks is the chief artificial intelligence officer.

AI is safe and trustworthy when deployed in healthcare. The plan emphasizes technical assistance for under-resourced organizations and workforce training initiatives.

The Department of Health and Human Services Jan. 17 announced 15 Medicare Part D drugs selected for the latest round of price negotiations.

HHS formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. and its former president Dr. Peter Daszak for allegedly failing to report dangerous gain-of-function research in China.

Paul Mango, a senior health official during President-elect Donald Trump's first term who was a member of Trump's current transition team, has died at 65. | Paul Mango, a senior health official during President-elect Donald Trump's first term who was a member of Trump's current transition team,

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team reportedly tapped a former senior health official from the president-elect's first term and a friend to top Trump loyalists to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr's chief of staff.

Abe Sutton, a health policy aide in the first Trump administration, is likely to be named head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS.

Last June, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which holds that the Seventh Amendment entitles