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Your guide to health policy in Washington, DC
Senate Republicans push massive healthcare reforms while hospitals and states sound alarms. What’s inside the bill that could reshape U.S. care?
From EHR challenges to Medicare payment gaps, policymakers confront the barriers to health tech adoption.
Dr. Monarez faces tough questions on vaccine science, ACIP firings, and restoring public trust amid rising measles cases.
Top takeaways from Secretary Kennedy’s latest hearing—covering payment reform, food policy, AI in healthcare, and critical vulnerabilities in the U.S. medical supply chain.
Novo Nordisk surges ahead, digital addiction alarms experts, and ICE shows up at hospitals. Here is what you need to know going into the week.
The Agriculture-FDA Appropriations bill proposes targeted trims to FDA operations, WIC fruit and vegetable benefits, rural telehealth funding, and local food programs — raising sharp opposition from Democrats and advocates.
Lawmakers dive into the structural market failures behind chronic drug shortages — and why fragile global supply chains make lifesaving medicines harder to secure.
Clinical trials are being halted, early-career researchers are losing funding, and rural institutions face growing disparities in access to NIH support. The future of U.S. biomedical research—and its global leadership—is under scrutiny.
Cuts, Conflicts, and Controversies: Medicaid and NIH funding are front and center as the Senate finalizes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
From staffing shortages to stalled sanitation projects, lawmakers sounded the alarm on systemic cracks in IHS operations—and signaled where future dollars must go.
Only 3 drugs switched to OTC in 3 years. Lawmakers push for answers on sunscreen, shortages, and workforce cuts.
The "Megabill" reconciliation package could reshape the safety net—and fracture the Senate caucus
