BREAKING: Trump White House Slashes Federal Health Agencies’ Workforce
On Friday, the White House announced that it was slashing one-tenth of the CDC workforce
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Bristol Myers Squibb Cancer Immunotherapy Flunks a Key Test in Melanoma
Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdualag paired with blockbuster immunotherapy Opdivo failed a clinical trial testing the regimen as an adjuvant therapy for patients whose melanoma has been surgically removed. While Opdualag is still projected to reach blockbuster status, it could face competition from a Regeneron Pharmaceuticals drug. The post Bristol Myers Squibb Cancer Immunotherapy Flunks a…
Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health…
HIMSS’ CEO Looks at the Landscape Around the HIT Association
Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, discusses the current strategic and operational landscape around the HIT association
What Drives Differences in Life Expectancy between the U.S. and Comparable Countries?
This analysis compares 2021 data about deaths in the U.S. and 11 other large, wealthy countries by age and cause to understand the primary drivers of the longevity gap between the U.S. and the comparable countries. It finds that the primary reasons for the gap in 2021 were chronic disease, COVID-19 and substance use disorders.
Remote Patient Monitoring Can Help Relieve Hospital Overcrowding — If Done Right
Moving forward, it’s essential for the health tech and medical fields to work together to make remote patient monitoring much more widely available and affordable for everyone across the country, with and without insurance. The post Remote Patient Monitoring Can Help Relieve Hospital Overcrowding — If Done Right appeared first on MedCity News.
A Dose of Love: The Winning Health Policy Valentines
Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines about surprise medical bills, bird flu, the cost of health care, and more. Here are some of our favorites, starting with the grand prize winner, whose entry was turned into a cartoon by staff illustrator…
As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two Scale Theirs Back
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or going to school is back on the table. The day after Trump’s inauguration, South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster asked federal officials to approve a work requirement…
Why don’t more people take up public services for which they are eligible?
One reason are the administrative obstacles and frictions that eligible individuals have to overcome to receive the public services. A paper by Herd and Moynihan (2025) in the Journal of Economic Perspectives provides an overview of the literature. Such burdens are the experience of policy implementation as onerous, and arise via learning costs (knowing about…
Is Glen Tullman a Hypocrite or a Victim of the System He Aimed to Disrupt?
The serial entrepreneur and CEO of Transcarent has dismissed care navigation companies in the past. What led him to buy Accolade, the biggest — though struggling — name in navigation? The post Is Glen Tullman a Hypocrite or a Victim of the System He Aimed to Disrupt? appeared first on MedCity News.