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After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%.
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After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%.
Efforts to decrease alarmingly high rates of suicide among construction workers and prevent burnout in health care workers are in jeopardy after the firing of hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more lenient approach to drug use and addiction. County officials say criminalization only worsens homelessness.
窪蹋勛圖厙 News journalists made the rounds on national and regional media this week to discuss topical stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
States that run their own health insurance marketplaces fear an end to automatic Obamacare reenrollment under the tax and spending megabill would have an outsize effect on their policyholders.
The House on Thursday moved to approve the largest-ever cuts to federal safety net programs, the last step before the measure goes to President Donald Trumps desk. After the Senate very narrowly passed the bill, House GOP leaders ushered it past resistance from conservatives wary of adding trillions to the federal debt and moderates concerned about its cuts to Medicaid. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has continued to pursue his anti-vaccine agenda, despite promising that he would not. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
In 2017, when President Donald Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors helped turn Congress against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, Republican governors whose constituents stand to lose federal funding and health coverage have gone quiet on the health consequences.
Republicans are attempting to use the budget reconciliation process to boost President Donald Trumps priorities and reduce health coverage. That process has been used to pass nearly every major piece of health legislation for decades except usually lawmakers use it to expand health care, not cut it, writes Julie Rovner.
Scientists and public health advocates see disconnects between what the Trump administration says about health notably, in its MAHA Report and what its actually doing.
Spending cuts hitting medical providers, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act enrollees, and lawfully present immigrants are just some of the biggest changes the GOP has in store for health care with ramifications that could touch all Americans.
Federal health officials are investigating claims that a Michigan health system fired an employee who sought a religious exemption to avoid calling transgender patients by their pronouns or referring them for gender-affirming care. Legal experts say the investigation escalates the Trump administrations effort to curb medical care for transgender patients.
Immigrants without legal status who live in the state are facing a Medi-Cal enrollment freeze next year. But the spate of immigration raids has raised fears that signing up before the deadline will put them on the radar of federal officials.
The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions.
Fewer Americans will likely have health insurance, compromising their physical and financial health, as the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress weigh major changes to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. The effects could be catastrophic, one policy analyst predicts.
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Sixty percent of Americans have health insurance through their own workplace or someone elses job. But not all employers provide health insurance or offer plans to all their workers. When they do, cost and quality vary widely, making Thunes statement an oversimplification.
Republicans claim 4.8 million Americans on Medicaid who could work choose not to. The GOPs work-requirement legislation could sweep up disabled people who say theyre unable to hold jobs.
A new vaccine advisory panel appointed by the HHS secretary, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, reflected his unsupported claims about the safety of childhood inoculations.
In this special episode taped before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, three former governors one of whom also served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services discuss how state and federal officials can work together to improve Americans health. Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, former Kansas governor and HHS secretary under President Barack Obama; Republican Chris Sununu, former New Hampshire governor; and Democrat Roy Cooper, former North Carolina governor, join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner.
Some of the nations most well-known beaches are managed by the National Park Service, which saw about 1,000 employees laid off in February by the quasi-agency Department of Government Efficiency, then led by Elon Musk. The void has become a serious public health and safety concern.
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