Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearing in the Senate last week was as close as we may ever get to a formal surrender in the long war over Covid-19 pandemic policies. While some public-health ...

Her nomination passed the Senate in a 67 to 32 vote, with 17 Democrats backing her confirmation. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Ted Budd of North Carolina were the ...

President Donald Trump's Labor secretary nominee, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, advanced past her last procedural vote on Thursday, teeing up a final confirmation vote next week. The nominee easily got ...

As it happens, yesterday was the Senate confirmation hearing of one such lockdown critic—Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya, whom President Donald Trump has tapped to ...

After the contentious Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another crucial governmental health leadership nominee—the proposed head of the FDA—took center stage Thursday. At his ...

The Senate labor committee approved Keith Sonderling’s nomination to serve as the second-in-command at the US Department of Labor, teeing up the nominee for Senate confirmation. The panel voted 12-11 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A health economist who once famously clashed with officials at the National Institutes of Health and now is the nominee to lead the agency faced questions from senators from ...

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Kennedy Jr. about spreading misinformation about vaccines during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing in February. And like Kennedy, some of Bhattacharya’s answers appeared to leave Cassidy wanting.

Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health faced questions Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing about how he would lead the agency ...

Committee in a confirmation hearing. Bhattacharya, most recently a professor at Stanford University, is looking to lead an agency with a budget of more than $47 billion that oversees clinical ...