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STAT finds employer premiums track the price of care more than its use, with hospitals and drug makers billing over twice Medicare's rates. Johns Hopkins economist Gerard Anderson says employers and states are now open to government intervention on costs.
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Stem cell entrepreneur Chuck Meeker predicts a series of FDA roundtables on his industry's therapies before the end of the year. The agency declined to say whether any are planned, so for now the forecast tells us more about what the industry hopes than about what the FDA intends.
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NIH launches a redesigned website on Monday that sorts its information into eight topic hubs, grants among them, instead of by its 27 institutes. Old sites stay up until redirects are in place, so grant seekers will meet the harder test later, as those sites close.
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Scott Hadland's Medicaid study of nearly 230,000 youth with opioid use disorder found medication starts edged up while six-month retention may have fallen. Most patients are lost before that point, since five in six young people engaged in care receive no medication at all.
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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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GLP-1 prescriptions for obese children aged 8 to 11 have risen 310-fold since 2019, a transplant surgeon's study found. The surgeon wants severe cases treated early but concedes that long-term data on growth and puberty are still missing.
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Nature's editors call for international oversight of brain organoid work after Stanford grafted human organoids into mice lacking almost all their cortex. They write that existing ethics review does not routinely take up the questions such grafts raise.
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STAT reports lobbyists are laying groundwork to delay or unwind the cuts. The winnable version looks like schedule changes and rural side funds, not restored baseline funding.
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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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CMS says AI avatars and AI nurses can help absorb nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. The Maine systems already running ambient scribes report better documentation and steadier clinicians, and no reduction in cost.
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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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A clinician's STAT News essay says SIO, ASCO and NCCN guidelines already recommend acupuncture, mindfulness and exercise for cancer symptoms, and it asks insurers to cover what those documents endorse.
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The Governing Body said on Friday that members may accept plasma, platelets and red and white cells, each as a personal decision, and may donate blood for use in products for others. Transfusion of whole blood is still prohibited.
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Phillip Alberti told a National Academies roundtable that support for health equity moved with the question's wording. He quoted the figure for one subgroup answering one version. The size of the movement stays unquantified.
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The argument is that flushing marks reduced ALDH2 activity in an estimated third of people of East Asian descent, and that a question about past flushing during routine social history taking would identify it.
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At the Children's Health Defense conference, the health secretary read adverse reactions off a hepatitis B package insert whose own text says their frequency and cause cannot be established. HHS now has more than 150 such reported events under study.
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Four deaths in a 693-case Pennsylvania outbreak have been attributed to measles by state officials and a county coroner, while the CDC's 2026 measles death count stands at zero pending the coding of death records.
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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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Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV found that the Department of Homeland Security promulgated the rule in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, so universities keep the current duration-of-status regime while the case is heard. The cap is still on the books.
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Pennsylvania has recorded 676 measles cases and three deaths in recent weeks. The CDC has not registered the two infant deaths as measles-related, and its director says the state did not notify the agency of the third.
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