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Kathleen Sebelius (; née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Read More at Wikipedia ›In a surprise move, the nation's health secretary stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms, deciding Wednesday that young girls shouldn't be able to buy it on their own.
The Food and Drug Administration was preparing to lift a controversial age limit and make Plan B One-Step the nation's first over-the-counter emergency contraceptive, available for purchase by people of any age without a prescription. But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius intervened at the eleventh hour and overruled her own experts. Plan B instead will remain behind the pharmacy counter, as it is sold today -- available without a prescription only for those 17 and older who show an ID proving their age. Sebelius' reason: Some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children, and Plan B's maker didn't prove that younger girls could properly understand how to use this product without guidance from an adult. "It is common knowledge tha...The Department of Health and Human Services' recently signed $17.6 million dollar contract with public relations firm Porter-Novelli, to tout the Affordable Care Act...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius paid homage to religious freedom and the separation of church and state in a graduation speech Friday at George...
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Chris Stirewalt, Fred Barnes and Matt Smith discuss the conflict between catholic institutions and the Obama Administration.
Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Mon...
There appears to be a decidedly political spin in the choices that President Obama, his wife and members of his administration have made in selecting from many invit...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was interrupted by anti-abortion protesters Friday during her commencement speech at Georgetown University, whe...
The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in ...
The clock is ticking: The first National Alzheimer's Plan sets a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying dis...
Franciscan University in Ohio drops student health insurance over contraception coverageCINCINNATI (AP) — A Roman Catholic university in eastern Ohio says it will dr...
President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health...
A top U.S. health official said she cannot rule out future cost increases to Medicare beneficiaries, but predicted a Republican budget-cutting proposal would force b...
NEW YORK (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is developing an action plan that will focus on reducing health disparities between minority an...
Marcia Segelstein and Rabbi Steve Burg discuss a rift that has formed inside the Catholic faith
Did Christmas come early this year? Kathleen Sebelius , Obama's strongly pro-abortion Secretary of Health and Human Services, miraculously rejected the Food and Drug...
President Obama asked Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to join his Cabinet as secretary of health and human services on Saturday and Sebelius accepted, a senior adminis...
The author of best-selling novel "The Exorcist" says he plans to sue alma mater Georgetown University in a Vatican court after the Catholic school invited Health and...