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President Trump’s Medicare director said Thursday his team is considering a policy that would automatically enroll Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare Advantage plans, a controversial idea that was touted in the conservative Project

Good morning and happy Friday. I’m off today, but I’ll talk to you next week.  Highlights from yesterday’s summit For me, the top moment from yesterday’s event may have been the seconds-long

The 2026 farm bill now working its way through Congress contains a number of provisions at odds with the Make America Healthy Again movement, particularly when it comes to pesticides and factory

A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does

Chris Klomp, a top official at the federal health department, offered a reality check on President Trump’s drug discount platform, TrumpRx, while speaking at a STAT event on Thursday.  Even as Trump

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With a backlash against vaccines following the Covid-19 pandemic — and the rise of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — there has been an intense focus among some in the United

A pair of federal watchdog reports released Thursday urge Medicare to do more to crack down on nursing homes’ use of antipsychotic drugs and inappropriate schizophrenia diagnoses for residents with dementia.  One

NEW YORK — The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. About 840,000