Ben Leonard

Driving The Day AN HHS ROADMAP — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely be a part of a second Trump administration's HHS, where he could play a

With Robert King and Sophie Gardner Driving The Day A LAME LAME DUCK? The likely GOP sweep of the House, Senate and White House has dampened expectations for health care policy riding in a lame-duck package.

Kennedy and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement want to go after traditional GOP interests in food and pharma.

The former House GOP member is also one of Trump’s former attorneys.

It will only take a few defectors to sink his nomination if Democrats, as expected, oppose him in unison.

Driving The Day THE MEDICAID SCRAMBLE — States are racing to have their Medicaid requests approved before the Trump administration takes power.

As CMS administrator, Oz would have latitude over health coverage for the more than 160 million Americans in Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs

LOMBARDY, ITALY— La Brújula Verde reports that a hiker in 2017 noticed petroglyphs at the foot of the Pizzo Tresero glacier in Lombardy's Stelvio National Park, nearly 10,000 feet above sealevel—the highest rock engravings yet found in Europe. Since their discovery, a team of researchers has documented 11 glyphs, which include geometric and spiral designs, human figures in a position resembling praying, and an animal representation that they believe may depict an equine. Based on the style of the petroglyphs, they have determined that artists carved them into the rock at different times throughout the Middle Bronze Age, between about 3,600 and 3,200 years ago. Glacier movement over thousands of years likely eroded other carvings. To read about the surviving garments of a man frozen in ice 5,300 years ago in the Italian Alps, go to " Ötzi's Sartorial Splendor."

ROME, ITALY—Italian police seized an array of third-century b.c. Etruscan artifacts that looters had found […]

Driving The Day BIOSECURE CHECK-IN — Legislation that would curtail Chinese biotechnology companies' ability to do business in the U.S. has