Trump admits he still doesn’t have an Affordable Care Act replacement plan
WASHINGTON — Eight years after he was elected president on a promise to repeal and…
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Trump struggles to find an abortion answer
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump is still struggling to land on an abortion answer that…
The health care issues to watch in tonight’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
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Biden administration finalizes rules to ensure insurers pay for mental health care
The Biden administration on Monday announced it would finalize a highly anticipated proposal meant to…
Opinion: Presidential debate moderators should ask about mental health policy
As the mom of three young adults, I am worried about their economic future —…
New Medicare drug prices, antimicrobial-resistant meningitis, unlucky American women
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Abortion, shingles, extreme heat, and sudden cardiac arrest
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The biotech news you missed this week
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Opinion: President Biden must take a cognitive screening test. Voters deserve to know the results
In the aftermath of President Biden’s debate with former President Trump last week, many of…
Making sense of the debate’s health care debate
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Biden and Trump spar over Medicare and abortion in a presidential debate filled with mistakes and falsehoods
WASHINGTON — For the most part, substantive debates on health policy between President Biden and…
Pressed on addiction, Trump and Biden talk border security but don’t mention treatment
President Biden and former President Trump were each given the chance on Thursday to speak…
Key health care topics to watch out for at the Biden-Trump debate
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The findings from Alnylam’s highly anticipated readout
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Inside Anthony Fauci’s ‘On Call’: 9 health and science takeaways from the memoir of America’s most famous doctor
Anthony Fauci spent 40 years in the top echelons of government. It was no accident….
STAT+: Why Google and Microsoft can’t defuse U.S. health care’s ticking cybersecurity problem
Facing a worsening cybersecurity crisis in health care, the Biden administration has followed a familiar…
STAT+: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it’s raising taxes on a range of…
Biden administration punts menthol cigarette rule indefinitely
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is walking away from a plan to permanently bar menthol cigarettes,…
Trump surrogates hint at how he could reshape U.S. health care policy
WASHINGTON — Seven months before the presidential election, Donald Trump’s health care priorities remain fuzzy…
VP Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing
The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing…
STAT+: The White House has a plan to stem drug shortages
WASHINGTON — The White House at long last published a plan to stem drug shortages,…
Supreme Court mifepristone arguments focus on physicians’ right to sue, not FDA judgment
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed to question physician’s right to sue the…
Supreme Court questions restricting government efforts to limit Covid-19 misinformation
WASHINGTON — Most of the Supreme Court’s justices on Monday seemed to question states’ arguments that…
STAT+: Here’s what you might have missed in Biden’s budget proposal
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday unveiled his requests for the 2025 budget, potentially his…
Biden calls for election wake-up call on abortion rights — but new upheavals are fast approaching
WASHINGTON — President Biden started his sprawling national address Thursday night with a warning to…
In his State of the Union, Biden takes clear aim at ‘Big Pharma’
WASHINGTON — Often, a president’s State of the Union address is a staid affair, with…
STAT+: Pharma giants, government spar in court over Medicare drug price negotiation
TRENTON, N.J. — Pharma industry giants including Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and…
Biden to propose expanding Medicare drug price negotiation in State of the Union
WASHINGTON — President Biden wants to more than double the size of Medicare’s new drug…
STAT+: Republicans consider a new attack on Biden ‘march-in’ plan for lower drug prices
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress might try to use a technical maneuver to block the…
STAT+: White House is told the big three PBMs are ‘everything wrong with this industry’
As part of its battle to blunt the growing cost of medicines, the White House…
STAT+: White House touts incremental step in Medicare drug price negotiation: counteroffers
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday ballyhooed a routine step in Medicare’s new program…
STAT+: What does America’s crackdown on Chinese firms mean for the U.S. biotech sector?
WASHINGTON — The federal government increasingly is scrutinizing Chinese businesses and their interactions with American…
House looks to weaken Medicare negotiation
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STAT+: White House to hold a listening session on reforming pharmacy benefit managers
In a bid to combat prescription drug costs, the White House will hold a listening…
Why won’t Medicare deliver food to sick seniors, if it could get them healthy?
WASHINGTON – Some twelve percent of traditional Medicare beneficiaries have heart failure. Roughly a quarter…
Key congressman blasts HHS for lack of cooperation on Covid-19
The Health and Human Services Department’s lack of cooperation with a congressional committee investigating the…
Opinion: I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Trump and Biden
When I interviewed Ronald Reagan about his health in 1980, he was 69 and poised…
HHS fills key vaccine advisory panel slots
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is filling eight vacancies,…
Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington
WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker…
Long Covid research funding at NIH gets a nearly 50% boost
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has dedicated an additional $515 million to a major initiative…
STAT+: Judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit over Medicare power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss…
New pharma CEOs in the hot seat
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STAT+: More than half the slots on a key vaccine advisory panel are vacant. Where’s HHS?
A critical government advisory committee charged with charting U.S. vaccination policy appears to be atrophying,…
CDC and social media: The new misinformation war
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Supreme Court to weigh whether Covid misinformation is protected speech
WASHINGTON — As social media sites were flooded with misleading posts about vaccine safety, mask…
STAT+: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation to water down the Inflation Reduction Act’s…
STAT+: New Medicare Advantage rule is boon for providers, drag on insurers
Starting this year, private Medicare plans have to cover their members’ hospitalizations at the higher…
Medicare drug price negotiation’s day in court
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STAT+: Judge skeptical of arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
WILMINGTON, Del. — Today was the first time that a federal judge asked questions in-person…
Congressmen: This Covid hearing ‘could have been an email’
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have repeatedly accused Biden health officials of withholding and censoring documents…