In a letter sent Wednesday night to Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink, a group of 34 Democratic senators called for the federal health agency to end its freeze on "external ...

Federal health agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have halted almost all external communication and cancelled several critical public health meetings as part of the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services, which has some 90,000 employees, is putting a freeze on most public communications as of Tuesday. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post | Getty Images) ...

Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday. NPR obtained a memo issued by the acting head of HHS, Dr. Dorothy Fink, to the heads ...