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At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released âin a few months.â Ivermectin, used to deworm horses and other animals, has become a symbol of resistance against the medical establishment among supporters of Kennedyâs âMake America Healthy Againâ agenda and many conservatives.
Experts say Affordable Care Act sign-up data wonât be clear until people who were enrolled have paid â or haven't paid â their new, often much higher, premiums.
U.S. Public Health Service doctors and nurses are being deployed to GuantĂĄnamo and other detention centers as President Donald Trump escalates mass arrests in his campaign to curb immigration. Some have resigned in protest. Others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.
With fractures emerging in the Make America Great Again movement, some Republicans are looking to capitalize on its âMAHAâ counterpart ahead of the midterms.
The Trump administrationâs move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.
Congress has passed â and President Trump has signed â the annual spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. But itâs unclear whether the administration will spend the money as Congress directed. Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health Newsâ Julie Rovner to discuss that story and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health Newsâ Renuka Rayasam about a new reporting project, âPriced Out.â
Progressives are assailing Gov. Gavin Newsom for proposing to pull back coverage for some legal residents, such as refugees and asylum-seekers, while conservatives lambaste the California Democrat for using limited state funds on Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status.
Sweeps of encampments scatter homeless people, as medications are tossed and street medicine providers scramble to reconnect with their patients. Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses the aftermath on the Jan. 28 edition of WAMUâs âHealth Hub.â
The Trump administration has made the future of federal funding for cancer research uncertain. At one groundbreaking breast cancer research lab, work that could save lives has slowed significantly.
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Some hospitals are registering patients detained by federal immigration officers under pseudonyms and prohibiting staff from contacting family members. Attorneys and health care workers say the practices facilitate rights violations and create ethical concerns. Hospitals say theyâre trying to protect patients.
The Trump administrationâs immigration crackdown is not just roiling politics but also directly affecting the provision of health care, medical groups say. Meanwhile, in Washington, federal spending bills have been stalled by the fight over immigration enforcement funding after the shooting death of a second person in Minneapolis this month. Maya Goldman of Axios, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health Newsâ Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more.
The federal governmentâs Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was supposed to help patients with their medical bills while protecting vaccine supply. But allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are routinely transferring cases from that program to launch lawsuits against drugmakers.
In Georgia, a high number of callers to the 988 crisis line hang up or disconnect before reaching a counselor. Many other calls are transferred out of state.
Patients say they find AI summaries of doctor visits user-friendly, but itâs not clear if their appointments are improving. In any case, doctors appear to be embracing the high-tech innovation.
Studies increasingly offer insights into the health risks and burdens faced by people who have had covid infections. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has narrowed covid vaccine recommendations and cut research.
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Two Trump administration regulatory rollbacks affect nursing home staffing and home care workers, and a new AI experiment in Medicare has alarmed eldercare advocates and congressional Democrats.
Lawmakers appear on the brink of passing a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services and a bipartisan health policy bill delayed for over a year. But the outlook is bleaker for the health care outline released by President Trump last week. Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times, and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health Newsâ Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews oncologist and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to discuss his new book, âEat Your Ice Cream.â
Measles is at a 30-year high in the U.S., but technicalities may stave off the loss of the nationâs measles elimination status.
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