🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious.
He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign.
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After nearly 40 years shaping the health policy landscape, our founding president and CEO Dr. Drew Altman announced he’ll retire at the end of the year.
Larry Levitt and Dr. Mollyann Brodie have been appointed by the Board as the new leadership team.
The Trump administration’s rollout of a mandate that millions of Medicaid enrollees work or risk losing benefits is forcing states to scrap months of preparation.
States had already committed to paying contractors millions to comply w/the law. @kffhealthnews.org
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The Trump administration’s new regulations say having a medical condition alone isn’t enough to avoid Medicaid work requirements. “This is a recipe for disaster,” one patient advocate says.
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“There’s been a fundamental destruction.”
Scientists are leaving the National Institutes of Health in droves under President Donald Trump.
@rachanadpradhan.bsky.social & @k-hought.bsky.social report on what's left behind ⤵️
States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a law that will strip health and food benefits from millions.
"This is a pretty big payday,” one expert told us.
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SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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“It’s clear when someone comes out with a drug and now you’ve just cured a disease. But you never know which ones could have been cured...We don’t know what we’ve lost.”
Data by @hackwriter.bsky.social
Our full investigation is below. More on the people and work lost: www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
Thousands of Minnesotans are still too scared to leave home, even for desperately needed medical care. So doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks to bring that care to them.
Hundreds of foreign doctors planning to treat underserved patients in the U.S. are in limbo. If the government doesn't expedite their visa waiver applications, most will have to leave by the end of July.
@ajzionts.bsky.social reports ⤵️
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Dr. Altman has led the organization for nearly 40 years; Levitt and Dr. Brodie to assume leadership roles next year, after a combined six decades at KFF in senior positions guiding policy research and...
Health experts and advocates for low-income people say federal rules implementing President Donald Trump’s new Medicaid work requirements upend months of work by state governments to prepare the compu...
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Health experts and advocates for low-income people say federal rules implementing President Donald Trump’s new Medicaid work requirements upend months of work by state governments to prepare the compu...
Cancer treatments, disease outbreaks, addiction science: Scientists say an exodus from the National Institutes of Health will harm the nation's ability to respond to illness.
A federal agency has dramatically slowed its review of visa waiver applications that allow international physicians completing U.S. training programs to stay in the country to work in underserved area...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs w...
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis forced families into hiding and catalyzed informal medical networks to deliver critical health care services.
The number of people employed at the NIH is at its lowest level in at least two decades.
Hear from six scientists run out by Trump and the work they left behind on cancer research, tick-borne diseases, and more.
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Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for chroni...
