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The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new approach to evaluating and approving COVID vaccines.

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A stricter FDA policy for COVID vaccines could limit future access

Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get immunized.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been carrying out President  Trump's vision to shrink government. On Monday, they announced an executive order aimed at drug prices.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. got rid of an 'alphabet soup' of health agencies. Now, Congress gets a say

On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to Capitol Hill to promote and defend his massive overhaul of HHS, and President Trump's plans to change it even more.

May 13, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs.

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  • Health

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

April 24, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
An insurance agent talks with clients inside a shopping center in Miami, on Dec. 5, 2023. Once someone enrolls in an Affordable Care Act plan, they can get help with sticky insurance issues from caseworkers at the federal government. Many caseworkers were cut in the recent round of federal layoffs.

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  • Health

Help for ACA health plans could be harder to come by since RFK axed teams of 'fixers'

Federal workers who help resolve complicated problems for Affordable Care Act policyholders are among those recently cut by the Trump administration.

April 22, 2025
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  • Julie Appleby
Medicare negotiations on drug prices can happen sooner for pills than many drugs that are injected.

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  • Health

Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices

The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passed during the Biden administration.

April 17, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
An advisory committee of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is set to meet Tuesday to discuss vaccines for RSV, COVID and others.

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  • Health

After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. set to start

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during inauguration ceremonies on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. on Jan. 16, 2023.

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  • Health

Judge rules Alabama can't prosecute groups helping patients get abortions elsewhere

Although most abortions remain illegal in Alabama, the decision allows doctors and advocacy groups to tell patients about abortion options in other states, and help with travel and other costs

April 03, 2025
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  • Drew Hawkins
A 17-year-old transgender boy from the Chicago suburbs was in the process of scheduling surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, but that stopped after Lurie paused surgeries in light of an executive order from the White House.

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  • Health

What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens

Patients and parents speak out after Lurie Children's in Chicago joined other hospitals in stopping gender-affirming surgeries. President Trump's executive order threatened their federal funding.

March 25, 2025
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  • Kristen Schorsch
Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

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  • Health

From TV to CMS: How Dr. Oz could shape Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Oz lacks policy experience but has TV show chops. Tom Scully, who led Medicare & Medicaid for President George W. Bush, argues that Oz is well-suited to be a spokesman for Trump's health care agenda.

March 20, 2025
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  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
At the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), physicians use telehealth to prescribe and mail pills to people who live in states that ban or restrict abortion. <br>

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  • Health

After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines

Doctors who mail abortion medication pills across state lines have been on alert ever since Louisiana, which bans abortion, indicted a New York doctor for mailing the pills to a woman there.

March 19, 2025
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  • Rosemary Westwood
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025.

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  • Health

Trump vowed to end surprise medical bills. The team working on that just got slashed

Trump's first round of staff cuts to federal agencies eliminated dozens of positions at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, in charge of implementing the No Surprises Act.

March 04, 2025
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  • Noam Levey
People hold up signs before Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally Nov. 4, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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  • Health

Some Trump voters want him to rein in health care costs. It's unclear if he will

In polls and focus groups, Trump voters say they want the government to do something about big medical bills. It's a big change from 5 years ago, pollsters say, and may not be on Trump's agenda.

February 26, 2025
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  • Noam Levey
Funding is stalled for National Institutes of Health research grants.

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  • Health

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

February 22, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in an ethics filing that he will cut ties with several companies and divest a range of stocks.

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  • Health

Ethics letters for Trump's picks to lead Medicare and NIH show they'll divest stock

Dr. Mehmet Oz, nominated to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will sell shares in Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH nominee, will shed stock in Walmart and Nvidia.

February 21, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Rob Stein
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, (center), flanked by Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the ranking member (left), and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., (right). House Republicans work on a budget plan to advance President Trump's priorities, including $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 13.

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  • Health

Republican proposals to cut Medicaid could be politically fraught

Republicans are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid to finance tax cuts and other priorities. Pushback is coming not only from Democrats, but also from hospitals that rely on revenue from the program.

February 20, 2025
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  • Phil Galewitz
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