Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has offered no new details about how his massive restructuring of the nation’s health department will improve Americans’ health, a day after thousands of layoffs ricocheted through its agencies.

The relationship a health care provider and the government department that sets its annual mandate should be reviewed, the minister responsible for it has said.Health and Social Care Minister Clare Christian will ask members to approve the setting up of a committee to review the at the April sitting of Tynwald.

The funding slash is part of a number of cuts that new Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made, including the canceling of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for research into vaccine hesitancy, LGBTQ populations and supporting HIV prevention.

The Knox County Health Department has laid off seven employees ‒ six full-time and one part-time ‒ after the federal government suddenly cut grants that paid their salaries, Knox News has learned. The employees' salaries were paid for by a federal Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases grant designed to fight infectious disease outbreaks.

Layoff notices began Tuesday, impacting workers across multiple agencies. The FDA will lose 3,500 jobs, the CDC 2,400, the National Institutes of Health 1,200, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 300, according to figures released by HHS.

Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - All of the federal workers who administer Maine’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program have been fired. That’s according to Representative Chellie Pingree and Representative Jared Golden. They are part of the 10,000 Department of Health and Human Services staffers terminated this week by the Trump administration.

Hundreds of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees waited on line to find out if they still had a job. The Trump administration is trying to cut 10,000 full-time jobs from the department.

The Arizona Department of Health Services said late last month that it received notice from the federal government that nearly $200 million in grants to the state had been terminated.

Washington risks losing more than $150 million for public health initiatives if the grant cancellations are considered legal.