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Kennedy's vaccines may give some Republican senators pause while Oz has an ally in Medicare Advantage plans.

Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H., as FDA administrator may be the least controversial of Trump's picks for the top healthcare jobs so far.

The Stanford medical school professor, the expected pick for the top job at the National Institutes of Health, has been a prominent critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures.

Gene therapies can be life-changing for people, but the high cost plus the burden of treatment remain barriers to access and utilization, explained Kevin Niehoff, PharmD, BCMAS, of IPD Analytics.

Numerous news organizations have reported that Mangione was valedictorian of 2016 graduating class of the Gilman School, a prestigious all-boys prep school in Baltimore. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in engineering. The New York Times reported that he was member of the Penn’s chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, an academic honor society for students in electric and computer engineering that restricts membership to the top third of the senior class

Dialing back doses of the two biologics saved $13.2 million over three years, researchers report at an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists meeting.

Published: December 13, 2024 | Updated: December 13, 2024 By Peter Wehrwein, Managing Editor

Spending reached $4.86 trillion in 2023, a 7.5% increase from 2022 The growth in spending on hospital care was the highest since 1990.

The new, now-defeated bill eliminated the PBM reform measures included in a larger spending bill that the president-elect and Elon Musk torpedoed on Wednesday.

The continuing resolution that passed last night does extend telehealth flexibilities.