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Milestone comes as health secretary RFK Jr has injected upheaval into US vaccine policy and spread misinformation The annual tally of measles cases in the US is the highest in 33 years, as an ongoing outbreak in west Texas continues to drive cases.The …
Testing is difficult for drugs for rare diseases, and new rules may make it harder for sufferers to obtain life-saving drugsUS drug regulators have increasingly signaled a focus on faster approvals and rare diseases, but patients with ultra-rare ailmen…
Bill slashes federal safety-net programs and increases funds for aggressive immigration enforcementDonald Trump signed his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, significantly cutting back on fed…
Democratic mayors challenge new rules that give millions of people less time to enroll in coverageNew Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter timeframe to sign up for the Affordable Care Act’s health care coverage are facing a…
Zhi Alan Cheng, 35, admits to filming assaults of patients and acquaintances in his apartment and workplaceA New York City doctor charged with raping or otherwise sexually abusing several hospital patients and acquaintances has pleaded guilty.Zhi Alan …
Justice department charges 324 defendants in largest healthcare fraud initiative in its historyThe US justice department said on Monday that it halted a series of healthcare fraud schemes that sought to bilk the federal government out of $14.6bn.The op…
Prosecutors allege more than a million Medicare recipients had their information stolen and used by the defendants for fraudulent claimsUS federal prosecutors charged 11 people on Friday in a Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare – the American health i…
Experts call decision that found health secretary has power to convene key panel ‘classic good news, bad news’A US supreme court decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare sets the stage for more politicized science in the future, health law…
Case challenged how members of an obscure but vital healthcare committee are appointedUS politics live – latest updatesThe US supreme court has ruled that a key provision of “Obamacare”, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, is constitutional. The…
Decision could embolden red states in US to block clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid fundsUS politics live – latest updatesThe US supreme court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid prog…