The 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to help safety net providers serve low-income patients, but it has since ballooned into a multibillion-dollar system dominated by large health systems — with a major lack of transparency about how savings are used to benefit patients. As HRSA launches a new rebate-based model meant to boost oversight,…
This resource chronologically lists and briefly describes key actions taken by the Trump Administration through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that affect public health in the U.S. The actions are listed in the order in which they were first issued, reported or announced.
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For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition. Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further…
Massive cuts to medical research and Medicaid. Waves of layoffs across the Department of Health and Human Services. Ongoing uncertainty around federal subsidies to buy health insurance on Affordable Care Act marketplaces. 2025 has been a rough year for federal health programs. But meanwhile, in the states, there were some wins for health care access….
Durante años, dos pacientes fueron al Centro de Memoria Penn de la Universidad de Pennsylvania, donde investigadores y médicos hacen el seguimiento de personas con deterioro cognitivo a medida que envejecen y, a la vez, de un grupo con capacidad cognitiva normal. Ambos pacientes, un hombre y una mujer, habían aceptado donar sus cerebros a…