HHS has sent the White House budget office an interim access policy on peptides, according to a posting on a government website. Two people familiar with the plan say it would assure pharmacies they will not be targeted for making certain peptides.
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Humana said 95% of its Medicare Advantage members will be in plans rated four stars or higher in 2027, up from 20%, and its shares rose 15% premarket. Lower ratings had cut its federal bonuses and its 2026 earnings target, qz.com reported, so the stock now depends on how much of that money the 2027 ratings bring back.
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FDA's unannounced chatbot session gave select tech firms an early say in health-AI guidance
FDA officials hosted at least 35 industry groups at an unannounced February session on patient chatbots, after inviting them in a CMS Slack chat room. The guidance it informs will cover every patient-chatbot maker, including firms left outside the room.
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CMS proposes narrowing the 340B markup that can push coinsurance above a hospital's drug cost
CMS has proposed narrowing Medicare's markup on 340B-discounted drugs, whose payments rose $3.6 billion after the Supreme Court ended a lower rate in 2022. An author at HHS argues in STAT that the markup grows with each drug's price and can leave a patient's coinsurance above what the hospital paid.
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CDC's 150-question health survey would drop items used to count disabled Americans
CDC's National Center for Health Statistics proposes shrinking its health interview survey from 482 questions to 150, dropping cognition and mobility items. Advocates say the shorter form would deepen an undercount of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a survey run since 1957.
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- Evidence55
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Trump's nearly $1 billion pocket rescission reaches $28 million in HHS research grants
President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.
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The updated CISA-FBI advisory puts Medusa at more than 500 victims as of April 2026, up from 300, with exploits weaponized within 24 hours and sometimes a week before disclosure.
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Kennedy's own letter proposed a health informatics assessment of Samoa's MMR vaccines
AP and The Guardian obtained a letter Kennedy sent before the 2019 trip, and it settles what the visit was for without settling what the visit did, a distinction both his defenders and his critics keep collapsing.
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CDC counts one of Pennsylvania's four measles deaths under Kennedy's new rule
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tied CDC measles death counts to NCHS coding, so the dashboard lists one death where Pennsylvania reports four. Former NCHS officials say coding delays and suppression of counts below 10 will leave the federal figure behind small outbreaks.
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FDA's final rule swaps "animal studies" for "nonclinical studies" from next February
The FDA will accept methods other than animal testing for drug and biologic safety determinations when it judges them appropriate, and the agency decides for itself what appropriate means.
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- Evidence57
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An executive order splits MMR into three shots Merck stopped making in 2008
The Aug. 10 order also cuts the routine childhood list from 18 vaccines to 11 on the argument that the United States is out of step with Europe, and the pediatricians who have read it say no new safety or efficacy data came with it.
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People in 13 countries rank being listened to among the top five things that would move them
An Edelman Trust Institute and Yale poll found that people rank a doctor's listening and patience alongside the explaining of risks. It landed in the same week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is due to keynote the group he chaired until December 2024.
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Providence's 2-billion-note de-identification run had to clear three separate tests
David Talby of John Snow Labs reports 98.6% recall against hand-labeled ground truth and no measurable demographic gap across 24 subgroups. The available account stops before the three-month red team reports back.
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FDA foreign food inspections are running at 53% of their fiscal 2024 pace
An 18,445-case cyclospora outbreak was the summer's loudest number, but the one that matters to anyone buying imported produce is 214: FDA foreign food inspections in two quarters, against 805 in all of fiscal 2024.
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Much of the health data a product collects falls outside HIPAA's reach
The federal privacy law teams cite reaches hospitals, insurers and their contractors, not the wearables and search logs where most health data now lives, and its de-identification fallback is weaker than officials claim.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
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The fight over Pennsylvania's measles deaths reaches the rules that make state counts comparable
Case definitions are boring by design, so that a measles death recorded in Pennsylvania means the same thing as one recorded in Texas. Two former CDC officials argue that the shared rulebook is what is now in dispute.
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- Evidence34
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A federal judge suspends HHS's grant rewrite over five faulty citations out of seven
Judge Christopher Cooper found that the Teen Pregnancy Prevention solicitations cited studies that either do not exist or do not say what HHS claimed, and he held the whole policy rather than asking for a corrected bibliography.
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- Evidence63
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- Hype gap+30
- Incentives58
- Confidence54
Screening tools and renewal forms are doing the work of a budget cut at HHS
A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
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- Evidence34
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DOJ downgraded its hacking victims to targets two days after the headlines ran
The 26 August announcement listed the Senate, the Federal Reserve and NASA among a Chinese group's victims. By 28 August they were targets, and any team that opened an incident on day one was hunting a claim the affidavit did not contain.
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- Evidence58
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Resigned CDC officials urge Congress to put scientific review beyond political reach
A year after quitting in protest, the authors argue the vulnerability at the CDC is structural rather than personal, and they point to the agency's unchanged vaccine-autism webpage as the cheapest available test of whether anything has improved.
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