Physicians have wanted CMS' burdensome Merit-based Incentive Payment System replaced for years. The proposed replacement, Value Pathways, has limitations that make MIPS look better, they say. Doctors ...

Researchers examining data from the 18 months after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade have found a 7% absolute increase in infant mortality. That number is higher for babies with birth defects ...

More Reason To Get Vaxxed: Research Ties Dementia To Flu, Other Infections The new study, lauded as “a leap beyond previous studies," found that severe infections can lead to long-term cognitive ...

Speaking to CBS News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook, health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated the HHS cuts were mainly "DEI cuts." Other topics discussed in the interview were food ...

Such tariffs could cause drug shortages and added costs for consumers, they say. For example, an assessment by The Budget Lab at Yale found that a 25% tariff would raise pharmaceutical prices by an ...

With the passage of the Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act, the United States created the framework for a federal system to test ingredients, inspect food factories and recall unsafe ...

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Trump administration cuts to the National Institutes of Health on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on June 3. KFF Health News ...

Las mujeres embarazadas que desarrollaron covid-19 han sido más proclives a enfermar gravemente y ser hospitalizadas.

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The Trump administration wants to shutter the CDC’s National Asthma Control Program, which provides millions in funding to ...

The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health ...