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Kennedy’s vaccine advisory panel upends shot recommendations
AHIP, the main lobby group representing health insurers, announced earlier this week that it would continue to cover all immunizations that were recommended as of Sept. 1, 2025, and coverage would be available
Back from recess, Senate turns to defense while House looks to get back to business
As reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 26-1 vote, the bill would authorize $32.1 billion more that President Donald Trump requested for defense and national security spending.
Budget maneuvers expected to reduce NIH funding opportunities
For example, a five-year, $5 million grant would usually result in $1 million per year. With forward-funding, the NIH would distribute that $5 million up front.
First three fiscal 2026 appropriations bills pass Senate
Construction-VA, Agriculture and Legislative Branch bills, comprising about $188 billion of the more than $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending likely to be approved for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
Planned Parenthood clinics reel from Republicans’ budget law
They include two Ohio family planning clinics — which don’t provide abortions — in Springfield and Hamilton that will close Aug. 1.
Panel recommends removing thimerosal from flu vaccines
The panel voted 5-1 in three separate votes to recommend single-dose seasonal influenza vaccines that are free of thimerosal for children 18 years and younger, pregnant women and all adults.
CDC nominee deflects questions over Kennedy’s vaccine decisions
several questions, including whether the U.S. should have ended its financial support of a global vaccine distribution organization, whether HHS will add more seats to the ACIP committee, what is the No. 1
Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization
Insurers would also reduce the number of services subject to prior authorization requirements by Jan. 1, 2026, and ensure continuity for patients who are changing insurance plans.
‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’
He started at NIH on April 1, the day many workers at NIH and other agencies were told they were fired.
Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research
Durbin, D-Ill., asked Kennedy if he knew the No. 1 cause of preventable death in America, a reference to tobacco, which has been at the top in the U.S. for decades.
Rare Disease Patients Await Congressional Action on Life-Saving Treatments
It would cost less than 1% of projected savings from the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program to enact ORPHAN Cures.
Most controversial Medicaid cuts left out of reconciliation text
The package also includes a measure that would end federal funds going to facilities or organizations that provide abortion services, like Planned Parenthood, that also received more than $1 million in
‘Skinny’ White House budget leaves some Senate Republicans hungry for more
President Donald Trump is proposing steep cuts to domestic and foreign aid spending for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 coupled with hefty increases for defense and border security, with the help of
HHS to look at environmental toxins as cause of autism
It reported Wednesday that among 8-year-old children, 1 in 36 had autism in 2020, compared to 1 in 31 in 2022.Â
US, Europe diverge on infectious disease messaging
The ECDC reported 28,791 cases of measles between March 1, 2024, and Feb. 28, 2025.
Fired FDA communications staff worry about impact on public health
Vera Rosenthal, a health communications specialist at the Food and Drug Administration, woke up to an email April 1 informing her that she had been affected by the Trump administration’s "Reduction in
No sign of Texas measles outbreak slowing, contrary to RFK Jr.’s claims
"We always see smaller numbers in the current 1-2 weeks because of diagnostic and reporting delays," he said.
Kennedy pledges to find autism cause by September
Kennedy stated that the most recent child autism rates "are going to be about 1 in 31" compared to 1 in 10,000 when he was a child. He did not specify the source for those figures.
Rep. Laura Gillen on traffic, campus protests and early days in Congress
Rep. Laura Gillen is seen in her Cannon building office on April 1. The New York Democrat unseated Anthony D'Esposito in November.