Latest Healthcare Policy news from across the web.
An FDA advisory panel recommended use of an experimental Replimune treatment for advanced melanoma that the agency has rejected twice
Read full article →A Novo Nordisk drug missed the mark in a heart disease study, raising questions about targeting inflammation to prevent cardiovascular complications.
Read full article →The new CDC director nominee moves to the full Senate vote, Medicaid work requirements will not be delayed, and more health news
Read full article →Nebraska's Medicaid director, in an exclusive interview with nonprofit news organization Tradeoffs , said roughly 200 people will lose health coverage on Aug. 1.
Read full article →Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
Read full article →“The ADA is no longer what we’d call a profile in courage,” write Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch.
Read full article →“Too often, regulatory tools authorized to speed patient access to breakthrough treatments are being used in ways that even prevent approval,” writes Kat Bryant Knudson.
Read full article →“The appropriate counter to Covid revisionism is careful, rigorous, and honest assessment of the U.S. response.”
Read full article →At the San Diego-Tijuana border, syphilis spreads while researchers contend with federal constraints and a drug shortage.
Read full article →The accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, have some experts worrying that these events may further erode public health staffing in the U.S.
Read full article →Cyclospora, the parasite that's been wreaking havoc in people's digestive systems over the past month, starts with a single cell. The parasite passes through human intestines to reproduce. Their complex biology contributes to why it's so hard to kick, leading to infections that can last for weeks or months.
Read full article →Dozens of people who grew up around Philadelphia learned decades later they shared the same biological father, a pioneering infertility doctor. Many bonded, created a family and hold reunions.
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