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Meanwhile, the GOP is looking to nix a Trump-backed Medicaid drug-pricing plan, and Democrats are urging cuts to excess spending in Medicare Advantage.

At his confirmation hearing, James O'Neill reiterated his pro-vaccine stance and noted he would "commit to prioritizing real transparency and sharing information with Congress and the American public.

This is part of Abu Dhabi Investment Office's project to expand its health care cluster in the UAE. Other industry news is on NeueHealth going private; layoffs at New York-Presbyterian Health System; ...

Experts have pointed to RSV vaccine campaigns as a possible reason why. A separate CDC report shows that infant hospitalizations in the 2024-25 respiratory virus season were more than 40% lower than ...

Health care professionals worry about the risks posed to immigrants when people forego medical treatment out of fear that ICE will come for them, The New York Times reports. Plus, news about family ...

Its elements include inappropriate endearments. “Elderspeak can be controlling, kind of bossy, so to soften that message ...

Citizen oversight is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to Health and Human Services ...

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that’s ...

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost ...

The president, who has teased a "very big announcement" next week, is expected to sign an executive order to implement the policy in an effort to lower Medicare drug costs, three sources told Politico ...

The Stanford-educated doctor, who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a critic of "Big Food, Big Pharma, and ... a broken health care landscape," Stat reports. Separately, Kennedy ...