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| Oct 13, 2026 | US consumer trust in food safety falls to record low | Listen to the article 2 min
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Americans' confidence in food safety fell to a record low this year, according to Gallup, after a Cyclospora outbreak and a ... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Cost-saving Medicaid meal deliveries threatened by cuts, policy uncertainty | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey, WBUR, KFF Health News
On a weekday morning in a quiet Boston neighborhood, a kitchen bustled with activity. Volunteers sliced chicken breasts, stuffed bell peppers, fil... |
| Sep 21, 2026 | What Are the Advantages of an Integrated Drug Development Model Over Multiple Specialized Vendors? | SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES, September 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Key Takeaways
Integrated drug development can improve decision quality by connecting discovery, biology, chemistry, manufacturing, and control (CMC) considerations earli... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | FDA’s AI Device Rules Let Healthcare Diagnostics Skip Female Validation | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Sep 18 2026, 11:14 AM EDT
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| Sep 12, 2026 | ‘Liberate methadone!’ Some patients demand the system’s destruction | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
This is the second installment in a four-part series.
Drug dealers know where to prowl. They often troll the shadows of America’s methadone clinics, tempting patients aiming to chase sobriety with ... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | President Trump Delivers Historic Results for the American People in Under Two Years | In less than two years, President Donald J. Trump has driven the most consequential stretch of governing in modern American history. He inherited a disaster — and turned it into a historic comeback. President Trump sealed the border, drove ... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Measles Kills Two in Lancaster County: Pennsylvania Records First Deaths in 35 Years | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Aug 25 2026, 11:27 AM EDT
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| Aug 12, 2026 | Stopping Statins After Age 75 Seems Safe in First RCT: Experts Call It Underpowered | By Alfredo Hanson
Published: Aug 12 2026, 4:37 PM EDT
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| Aug 11, 2026 | Hospital AI Governance Excludes Nurses Who Catch What Algorithms Miss, STAT Finds | By James Whitaker
Published: Aug 11 2026, 9:38 AM EDT
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| Aug 7, 2026 | HuidaGene Hid Boy’s Gene Therapy Death for 12 Months: China Trial System Failed | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Aug 07 2026, 8:53 AM EDT
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| Aug 7, 2026 | AI is being used to boost Medicaid enrollment, but not without concerns | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Mark Kreidler, KFF Health News
Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it was time to renew her coverag... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | mFLUSIVA Approved: FDA Clears mRNA Flu Shot, Unlocking Combo and Pandemic Vaccine Resubmission | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Aug 06 2026, 8:17 AM EDT
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| Aug 6, 2026 | Senate Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt, Seizes Encrypted iPhone: Can Investigators Read It? | By Roger Satterfield
Published: Aug 06 2026, 11:54 AM EDT
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| Aug 5, 2026 | mRNA Flu Vaccine Faces FDA Verdict: Approval Alone Won’t Mean Coverage for Seniors | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Aug 05 2026, 9:23 AM EDT
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| Aug 4, 2026 | Eli Lilly Formalizes Retatrutide Access With Criteria Most Patients Cannot Meet | By Adrian Parham
Published: Aug 04 2026, 5:45 AM EDT
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| Aug 4, 2026 | Patti Scialfa Is in Remission: Multiple Myeloma Survival Has Risen Fivefold in 20 Years | By Jackie Manning
Published: Aug 04 2026, 8:46 PM EDT
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| Aug 2, 2026 | Kennedy Disputes Vaccine Science on CNN as Measles Hits 35-Year US High | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Aug 02 2026, 1:53 PM EDT
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| Aug 1, 2026 | Massachusetts Legislature Passes Bill to Enhance Child Welfare Protections | Strengthens oversight, improves educational support, expands youth rights,
and increases transparency across the Commonwealth's child welfare system
(BOSTON—7/31/2026) Today, the Massachusetts Legislature passed comprehensive legislati... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | New Medicaid work rules could cause patients to lose coverage, rare disease advocates warn | New Medicaid work requirements could put rare disease patients at risk of losing coverage, even when their medical conditions prevent them from consistently working.
Advocates warn that vague exemption rules and differing state policies cou... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | American scientists see prosecutions as part of federal campaign against them | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Katheryn Houghton and Arthur Allen, KFF Health News
HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world ... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Hits Netflix: Culling Game Science Has a Nobel Prize Behind It | By Maxwell Templeton
Published: Jul 22 2026, 3:46 PM EDT
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| Jul 21, 2026 | THC Sodas Beside Chocolate Milk: Kids in ICU as Mainstream Retail Ignores Laws | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Jul 21 2026, 10:41 AM EDT
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Blood Proteins Predict Faster Brain Aging in Older Black Adults, Study Finds | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jul 18 2026, 10:04 PM EDT
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| Jul 17, 2026 | CDC Links Record Cyclospora Outbreak to Taylor Farms Lettuce at Taco Bell | By Frederick Rodriguez
Published: Jul 17 2026, 11:22 AM EDT
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| Jul 16, 2026 | Chairman Rick Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and Senator Warren Introduce Bill to Demand Transparency on Foreign Control in U.S. Drug Supply Chain | WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senate Aging Committee Chairman Rick Scott, Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand, and committee member Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced the Pharmaceutical Investment Oversight and Accountability Act to bring m... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Would hunters take a Lyme disease vaccine? We asked | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Bram Sable-Smith, KFF Health News
It’s tick season, possibly the worst in a decade.
More and more Americans are being exposed to these parasites as climate change expands the range where they ca... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT Voice Goes Full-Duplex: GPT-Live Ends Turn-Based AI Conversations | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jul 10 2026, 12:30 AM EDT
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| Jul 1, 2026 | Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity | Today, the Supreme Court affirmed President Donald J. Trump’s longstanding commitment to protect women and girls, ruling that states may reserve female athletic competition for biological females.
The Court’s decision is a landmark victory ... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Robotic Pharmacy Startup Queue Raises $18.6M: Fills Prescriptions in 30 Seconds, No Pharmacist | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jul 01 2026, 11:53 PM EDT
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| Jun 29, 2026 | Ebola Outbreak at 1,176 Cases: First Drug Trial for Bundibugyo Strain Launches This Week | By John Bright
Published: Jun 29 2026, 11:59 AM EDT
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| Jun 23, 2026 | Eli Lilly Chose One 79-Year-Old for Retatrutide While Millions Rely on Gray Market | By Chase Fiorini
Published: Jun 23 2026, 1:24 PM EDT
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| Jun 15, 2026 | RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work | We should all know at this point that RFK Jr. is bad at his job as Secretary of HHS. But that simplistic statement apparently needs something of a qualifier. Instead, it appears we should say that RFK Jr. is bad at the parts of his job that... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Massachusetts Senate Passes Landmark Child Welfare Bill to Protect Foster Youth, Strengthen Oversight | Legislation establishes Foster Child Bill of Rights, expands community-based support for at-risk youth
(BOSTON—6/11/2026) The Massachusetts Senate today unanimously passed legislation that safeguards the wellbeing of children, particularly ... |
| May 31, 2026 | Why Trump reversed course to fast-track psychedelic drugs for mental healthcare | President Donald Trump aims to fast-track research into psychedelic therapy for conditions like post traumatic stress disorder and depression in a break from his first administration policy.
Advocates see the move as a major step forward, b... |
| May 29, 2026 | Low wages, empty plates, heavy toll: Rethinking suicide prevention | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
As a teenager, Re... |
| May 21, 2026 | Daily Stock Market Live
Dow adds nearly 300 points Friday for new record close; S&P 500 notches eighth winning week: Live updates | Stocks rose Friday as Treasury yields eased, resulting in a winning week for Wall Street despite heightened volatility.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 294.04 points, or 0.58%, to end at 50,579.70. The 30-stock index hit an intraday... |
| May 21, 2026 | WHO Declares First PHEIC Without Emergency Committee as Bundibugyo Ebola Kills 139, Infects First American | By Shannon Harwood
Published: May 21 2026, 17:05 PM EDT
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| May 19, 2026 | FDA blocked melanoma drug as confusion reigned under Makary | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News
The FDA’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug ha... |
| May 14, 2026 | Saving lives by changing lives: The next frontier in suicide prevention | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”
Someone in Americ... |
| May 12, 2026 | Marty Makary resigns as FDA commissioner following industry and White House backlash | FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is out the job, and a deputy at the agency will take over temporarily, President Donald Trump said.
Makary’s tenure was marked by internal dysfunction at the FDA, leadership turmoil and mounting backlash from d... |
| Apr 20, 2026 | How Trump’s psychedelics executive order could unlock stalled cannabis reform | The White House psychedelics executive order accelerates research, clinical trials and “Right to Try” access for drugs like psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine.
The order does not change the legal status of the drugs, but it reinforces a federal ... |
| Apr 14, 2026 | The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are | One of the most remarkable staffing decisions of the second Trump administration has been to allow the anti-vaxxers to run America’s health agencies. While RFK Jr. and his cadre of lieutenants prattle on about how they’re going to be super ... |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Jeito Capital Hits Record $1.2 Billion (€1 Billion)1 Close for Jeito II Fund to Drive Breakthrough Therapeutic Innovation for Patients | Jeito Capital (“Jeito”), a global independent private equity fund dedicated to Biopharma, today announces the final closing of its second fund Jeito II, exceeding its target at $1.2 billion (above €1 billion)1,2, and marking a new major mil... |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Eli Lilly opposes push to pass Trump’s drug pricing deals into law, CEO says | Eli Lilly opposes the White House’s push to codify ‘most favored nation’ drug pricing, Lilly CEO Dave Ricks said in an interview with CNBC.
Lilly is one of more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies that have signed MFN deals with the Trump... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Когда вычисления станут бесконечными: разбор интервью Илона Маска от 5.02.26 | Преамбула. Человек в очереди
В 1937 году дальнобойщик Малком МакЛин простоял несколько часов на причале в Нью-Джерси — ждал, пока грузчики вручную перекладывают тысячи ящиков с его грузовика на борт корабля. Разгрузка шла медленно: каждая е... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Six federal scientists run out by Trump discuss the work left undone | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Rachana Pradhan, Katheryn Houghton, Eric Harkleroad, KFF Health News
Marc Ernstoff, a physician who has pioneered immunotherapy research and treatments for cancer patients, said his work as a fe... |
| Mar 7, 2026 | When to talk to AI chatbots about mental health—and when to stay far away, professionals say | As Americans get lonelier and lonelier, a growing number of people are getting some emotional support from artificial intelligence chatbots — and some mental health experts are concerned.
“The topic of AI for therapy [and] emotional support... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Top FDA drug official is trying to hire a friend who’s seeking a bold new warning on antidepressants | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to... |
| Feb 28, 2026 | Novo Nordisk Slashes GLP-1 Drug Prices, Reshaping US Healthcare Access | Novo Nordisk announces significant price reductions for its flagship GLP-1 medications, Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus. List prices will drop by up to 50% starting January 2027. This strategic shift targets insured patients, particularly tho... |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Ozempic, Wegovy list prices to be slashed by up to 50% | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Weight loss drugmaker Novo Nordisk will cut the list prices of Ozempic and Wegovy by up to 50% beginning in 2027, the company announced this week.
Wegovy currently carries a list price of $1,349 pe... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Public Health Crossroads: FDA Navigates Food Safety and Vaccine Imperatives | A critical juncture faces American public health. The FDA moves to review ultraprocessed food ingredients. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. champions this review. He cites public understanding, not new regulation. Simultaneously, the age... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | FDA’s see-sawing on Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine is dangerous (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The anti-science, anti-medicine mindset of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is killing people by quashing life-saving vaccines.
There is no other explanation why Moderna’s ... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | House lawmaker raises new concerns over FDA’s ultra-fast drug review program | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker raised new concerns about a Food and Drug Administration program designed to drastically shorten the review of certain drugs, including wh... |
| Jan 19, 2026 | RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement has picked up steam in statehouses. Here’s what to expect in 2026 | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Alan Greenblatt, KFF Health News
When one of Adam Burkhammer’s foster children struggled with hyperactivity, the West Virginia legislator and his wife decided to alter their diet and remove any ... |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Making U.S. biotech more competitive with China’s could help rare disease patients, experts say | To share your story, or find out how to get involved with CNBC Cures, email [email protected]
China is pumping money into its biotech industry, helping launch a new wave of labs and incubators in the country.
Experts say this could slow d... |
| Dec 8, 2025 | AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, pri... |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Breast cancer and birth control: A huge new study shows how science can be distorted | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News
As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of comm... |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Progress on overdose deaths could be jeopardized by federal cuts, critics say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
The Trump administration has made deep cuts to the main federal agency focused on fighting opioid addiction, potentially jeopardizing the nation’s recent progress on... |
| Nov 21, 2025 | ДНК-спираль изменила наше представление о себе | «Законы наследственности совершенно неизвестны», — признал Чарльз Дарвин в 1859 году. Открытие формы ДНК изменило наше представление о самой жизни.
Рентгеновская кристаллография, проведённая Розалинд Франклин в 1952 году, которая помогла Дж... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | ‘GLP-1 is Raising the Bar’: How Danone’s Kate Farms is Embracing the Ozempic Boom | 6 Mins Read As GLP-1 users become “more label-literate and science-minded”, Danone’s plant-based nutrition brand Kate Farms is busting its gut to meet the moment with “truly better-for-you” products.
Ozempic has led the Make America Healthy... |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Physician Practice Acquisitions: What Drives Them and Implications for Consumers and Payers | Physicians are increasingly choosing to be employed instead of running their own small practices. Though a far higher percentage of physicians remain in private practice than the overall rate of self-employment in the U.S. (42% of physician... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Healthcare Technology Companies Increase Philanthropic Giving to Africa in Wake of USAID Cuts | Created by Carl Williams
Published: Oct 15 2025, 00:13 AM EDT
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| Aug 27, 2025 | CDC Director Susan Monarez ousted, four other leaders quit health agency | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez has left the role just weeks after being sworn in, the Health and Human Services department said.
At least four other officials also submitted their resignations in a massive... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Former FDA Head Gives MAHA Blueprint to Regulate UPFs. What Does It Mean for Plant-Based Meat? | 8 Mins Read Ex-FDA commissioner Dr David Kessler has filed a citizen petition asking the agency to revoke the food safety status of processed refined carbohydrates, a move that both helps and challenges the MAHA movement.
On Thursday, the C... |
| Aug 1, 2025 | The Risks of Government Data Suppression | July 29, 2025 |
Sarah James, Assistant Professor of Political Science
The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed nations. Since 1987, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has administered the Pregnancy Ris... |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Freed says 20,000 clinicians are using its medical AI transcription ‘scribe,’ but competition is rising fast | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
Even generative AI critics and detractors have to admit the technology is great for... |
| Jul 21, 2025 | FDA taps biotech industry veteran as RFK Jr.’s top drug regulator | The Food and Drug Administration said it has appointed former biotech executive George Tidmarsh as the agency’s top drug regulator.
Tidmarsh, an adjunct professor of pediatrics and neonatology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, wi... |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Sarepta shares plunge 40% as future of its gene therapy appears at risk | Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged more than 30% on Friday as the future of its approved gene therapy appeared at risk.
Sarepta has reported three patient deaths related to its gene therapies.
The Food and Drug Administration will reque... |
| Jul 7, 2025 | RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed | “It is perfectly possible to make meals like this with real foods and no ultra-processing additives but every one of the meals I looked at is loaded with such additives,” Nestle said. “What’s so sad is that they don’t have to be this way. O... |
| Jul 4, 2025 | The Economic and Ethical Imperative: How Shirley Angelina Lingamdinne's AI Corrects Gender Bias in Healthcare | Created by Carl Williams
Published: Jul 04 2025, 05:06 AM EDT
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| Jun 19, 2025 | Big Pharma Under Fire: A Taxing Debate in the Senate | The Senate floor is heating up. Two Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, are shining a spotlight on the pharmaceutical giants. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, AbbVie, and Amgen are in the crosshairs. Th... |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Democrats press Pfizer, J&J and others over low tax bills and lobbying as Senate debates Trump’s plan | Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday pressed five of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies about their low tax bills and whether they support extending massive tax cuts for the industry in the GOP reconciliation bill.
Sen. Elizabeth ... |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market | Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six “pillars” in order to simplify its structure.
The change comes after Amazon lost a handful of top health executives in recent months.
Amazon has struggled to find a consistent strateg... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | The Boston Globe Names Starburst Cofounder and CEO Justin Borgman to 2025 Tech Power Players 50 List | Among Top Tech Leaders in New England Honored in Globe's Fourth Annual List of Boston's Biggest Innovators
BOSTON, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Starburst, the data platform for apps and AI, today announced that its Cofounder and ... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Why a Covid-19 vaccine could soon cost as much as $150—even if you’re insured | If you’re planning on getting a Covid-19 booster this fall, you could be faced with a hefty bill — even if you have insurance.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in May that the Centers for Disease Control a... |
| May 22, 2025 | How UnitedHealthcare became the face of America’s health insurance frustrations | UnitedHealthcare has become the poster child for problems with the U.S. insurance industry and the nation’s sprawling health-care system.
Some health insurance and policy experts say it’s no surprise that the company often ends up in the cr... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Bristol Myers Squibb tops quarterly estimates, hikes outlook as drugmaker braces for tariffs | Bristol Myers Squibb beat first-quarter estimates and hiked its revenue and profit guidance for the year, as the drugmaker cuts costs.
The company said its guidance revisions include the estimated impact of current tariffs on U.S. products ... |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Rural hospitals question whether they can afford Medicare Advantage contracts | Medicare is the main federal health insurance program for people 65 or older. Participants can enroll in traditional, government-run Medicare or in a Medicare Advantage plan run by a private insurance company.
In 2024, 56% of urban Medicare... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | The White House’s Cuts To Scientific Research Will Cut Short American Lives | Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from over-the-counter and prescription medications that treat high cholesterol and pain to protection from infectious diseases such... |
| Apr 2, 2025 | THE 15 WHITE COATS® BRINGS HBCU TETHERED TOUR TO FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | Inspiring Excellence at Fayetteville State University — The 15 White Coats HBCU Tethered Tour: More Than Your Wildest Dream
The 15 White Coats HBCU Tethered Tour Hits Fayetteville State University - Promotes Diversity in Medicine FAYETTEVIL... |
| Mar 17, 2025 | The 15 White Coats® HBCU Tethered Tour Brought to Dillard University | The Black physician-led group visited Dillard University to inspire students to apply and attend Medical School.
Empowering future Black physicians starts with providing them with mentors who look like them, come from similar backgrounds an... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Is AI the answer to compliance challenges? [Q&A] | Increasing amounts of regulation are creating an issue for businesses as they seek to ensure compliance whilst still delivering on their core activities. This is leading many to boost the size of their security teams.
We spoke to Jay Trinck... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | National Politics | MRNA vaccines, once a Trump boast, now face attacks from some in GOP | MRNA is found naturally in human cells. It is a molecule that carries genetic material and, in a vaccine, trains the body’s immune system to fight viruses, cancer cells, and other conditions. An advantage of mRNA technology is that it can b... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | THE 15 WHITE COATS® BRINGS HBCU TETHERED TOUR TO DILLARD UNIVERSITY | HBCU Tethered Tour to Dillard University to Promote Diversity in Medicine
The 15 White Coats, Black Physician-led Group, Visits Dillard University to Encourage Students to Apply and Attend Medical School NEW ORLEANS, LA, UNITED STATES, Marc... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Vaccination Crisis: A Dangerous Shift in Public Health Policy | The landscape of public health in the United States is shifting. The recent appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) has raised alarms among health experts. Kennedy, a well-known vaccine skept... |
| Mar 9, 2025 | RFK Jr. could further deter childhood vaccinations as rates fall in the U.S. | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's new top health official, could further erode already falling U.S. vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases, health policy experts said.
Kennedy, a prominent vaccine skeptic, now leads... |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Editorials | Editorial: No room for timidity in fight against Trump’s imperial presidency | Rep. Jared Golden, D.-Maine, rightly said Trump’s hatchet man, Elon Musk, is unelected, unvetted and unaccountable. “If I had a staffer like that, I’d probably fire him,” Golden said.
Democrats pulled an all-nighter to protest the confirmat... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | This Startup Is Billionaire Reid Hoffman's Next Big Bet Hoffman sold LinkedIn, which he co-founded, to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016. | LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman became a billionaire when Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2 billion in cash, and he has also made his fortune on high-return investments in more than 80 tech startups, including Airbnb, Groupon, an... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Editorials | Editorial: Trump’s dangerous spurning of the World Health Organization | Some people might wonder why this international apparatus matters so much when we have robust biomedical research and health research systems domestically; setting aside the interconnectedness of public health globally, Trump is taking aim ... |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Medicare Drops Appeal in UnitedHealth Star Rating Lawsuit | (Bloomberg) -- US officials dropped their appeal of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. lawsuit challenging the federal Medicare program’s quality ratings, a potential boon for insurers protesting the rankings that drive billions of dollars in paymen... |
| Jan 10, 2025 | Eli Lilly, Andreessen Horowitz link up on $500M biotech venture fund | Eli Lilly and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) are joining forces to create a unique new fund dubbed the Biotech Ecosystem Venture Fund, backed by $500 million of Lilly’s capital.
The alliance combines a16z’s biotech venture ... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Strengthening Background Screening Amidst the Nursing Shortage | RJ Frasca, VP at Shield Screening
The nursing profession is facing an unprecedented crisis, with burnout reaching critical levels due to a severe shortage of nurses. In 2023, the United States saw a shortfall of about 1.1 million nurses. Th... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Health | Weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy are all the rage. Are they safe for kids? | Dr. Chris Straughn, a pediatrician at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, said research shows GLP-1s can be both effective and safe for kids and teens, but that research only shows the impact over a few years.
“Both in kids and adul... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | LA Times Owner To Personally Review Opinion Headlines To Avoid Offending Elon Musk | Billionaire media owners are getting bolder in their attempts to suppress opinions they dislike. The latest example comes from LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who reportedly plans to personally review all opinion headlines to ensure the... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Complete Genomics announces mpox virus amplicon sequencing panel at AMP | VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Complete Genomics, a San Jose, Calif.-based genomic sequencer manufacturer, today announced at the 2024 Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting & Expo the launch of its mpox ... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Shadows Over Democracy: The Price of Silence in the Age of Trump | In the current political landscape, the specter of Donald Trump looms large. His influence stretches beyond the ballot box, reaching into the very heart of American journalism. Recent events reveal a troubling trend: media moguls, gripped b... |
| Oct 26, 2024 | The Quest for Biological Immortality: ARPA-H and the Future of Human Longevity | In a world where aging is often viewed as an inevitable fate, a new frontier is emerging. The U.S. government has taken a bold step into the realm of radical science with the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | ARPA-H: новый шаг к биологическому бессмертию | Рене Вегжин использует свой опыт работы в DARPA, чтобы возглавить агентство, ориентированное на здоровье и придерживающееся схожей философии.
В 2022, когда биолог Рене Вегжин возглавила Агентство перспективных исследовательских проектов в о... |
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