Tag: HHS

On Friday, CNN and AL(dot)com broke the news that Mountain Brook native, Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is a pro-life, urologist who was highly critical of the national response to COVID.

Trust in the U.S. government took a nosedive during the COVID-19 pandemic, and perhaps no agency was harder hit than the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall continues to show he is one of the nation's strongest advocates for President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back Biden-era Woke policies. This week, challenging a HHS rule that requires states to promote and pay for 'sex-change' procedures or face consequences.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of HHS, said, "When President Trump and I asked Brian Christine to serve, we weren't just checking a box. We were both convinced that we had found the leader who would be most able to revive and strengthen the uniform service."

Just six weeks after his Senate confirmation, Mountain Brook urologist turned Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine, MD,'s office published 'Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,' a peer-reviewed study examining the well-documented and studied medical risks associated with attempts to change children's biological sex.

The Trump administration canceled a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) last week.

Dr. Brian Christine, a Mountain Brook resident and world-renowned urologist, has been nominated by President Donald Trump for assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) threw his support in yet again for President Donald Trump’s pick as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Senate hearings begin on Wednesday.

U.S. Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) both announced that they would support the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after President-elect Donald Trump selected him to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 16 states in filing a lawsuit to challenge the Biden administration's effort to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called Obamacare, to illegal aliens.