Dr. Vivek Murthy, who helped found several health-related advocacy groups and later tackled the opioid epidemic and e-cigarettes as surgeon general during the Obama administration, was confirmed ...

However, Murthy's political advocacy for Obama and past statements on gun control slowed his nomination. In 2008, he co-founded Doctors for Obama, a group of doctors and medical students who ...

A job that's been open in President Obama's administration since July of 2013 was finally filled Monday, as the Senate voted to confirm Vivek Murthy as America's new surgeon general.

Vivek Murthy is facing Senate approval in upcoming weeks. President Obama is using every executive power in his arsenal to infringe on Second Amendment rights.

Obama said in a statement that Murthy will bring "his lifetime of experience promoting public health" to the role and help guide the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis.

Vivek Murthy, President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as U.S. Surgeon General, plans to tell Congress on Thursday that his top priority, if confirmed, will be ending the pandemic -- which has taken ...

White House hasn%27t given up on Murthy nomination but is recalibrating strategy Obama was embarrased this month when the Senate blocked a key Justice Department nomination Gun rights advocates ...

Dr. Vivek Murthy will likely not be the next Surgeon General, after at least 10 Democrats have indicated they would vote against him because he supports tighter gun control.

President Barack Obama speaks while participating in a roundtable discussion on the impacts of climate change on public health with Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general, left, at Howard University ...

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed Dr. Vivek Murthy’s previous nomination for a Cabinet role, as President-elect Joe Biden tapped him to serve in his administration on Monday. Murthy was ...

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, listens on Capitol Hill on Feb. 4, 2014. Charles Dharapak / AP file ...

In all the talk about the relaunch of HealthCare.gov, Americans might have missed President Obama's nomination of Vivek Hallegere Murthy to be our next surgeon general.