At POLITICO’s Health Care Summit, the West Virginia Democrat took aim at the president on fentanyl overdoses...
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The former Trump adviser wants the GOP to stop claiming Democrats support abortion “up until the moment...
The HHS chief also spoke about reproductive health care, saying he doubts Alabama will be the last...
The visit comes as part of Harris’ nationwide “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour.
Biden administration officials, lawmakers and policy experts addressed the health policy issues shaping this year’s elections.
Tanden said Republicans are virtually unified in their calls for a federal abortion ban — and that...
Some groups are running ads against longstanding GOP allies that use the same graphic imagery — blood,...
A CDC reorganization as some conservatives are calling for could impact the agency’s ability to help prevent...
Kate Cox’s fight for an abortion in Texas highlights Dobbs’ knock-on effects.
Gov. Kay Ivey signed the legislation as soon as it reached her desk Wednesday night.
Opponents of the reproductive rights referendum are waging a campaign to discourage voters from signing petitions.
Democrats are working to make abortion and reproductive health care a central issue in the 2024 election.
The announcement is expected to be touted this week, alongside efforts to increase competition in food, housing...
Eighty-six percent of those surveyed said IVF should be legal for women trying to get pregnant.
At the same time that they are professing support for IVF, dozens of congressional Republicans have signed...
The guidance for Covid now aligns with RSV and the flu and comes amid a marked decrease...
The move comes just weeks before the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that...
Any one senator could block the unanimous consent request.
The votes in the House and the Senate come nearly two weeks after the state Supreme Court...
The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that granted legal personhood to frozen embryos puts a new spotlight on...
Graham opposes IVF ruling: 'Nobody's ever been born in a freezer'
The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees health insurance for 8 million federal workers and their families...
The proposal comes a little more than a week after the state’s high court ruled that frozen...
Some Republicans indicated they might be more open to it this time around. “I didn’t think it...
IVF — and specifically how to handle unused, frozen embryos — was rarely, if ever, discussed outside...
“It certainly intersects, badly, with general election politics for Republicans,” said Stan Barnes, a political consultant and...
The Trump administration authorized 13 states’ work requirements, which tied Medicaid to employment, though only Arkansas’ got...
The scramble is pitting abortion-rights supporters in states with near-total bans against those in states where abortion...
“It’s been massive to have the Carters be so public,” said Angela Novas, chief medical officer for...
Unlike medical devices or drugs, AI software changes. Rather than issuing a one-time approval, FDA wants to...
“As President Trump has stated, he would sit down with both sides and negotiate a deal that...
The partisan, cross-border swipes during the late January speech may say more about American politics in 2028...
“It could easily be part of this package,” he said. “I’ll certainly push that it should be...
Here are the top takeaways: 1. The Senate is trying to advance a health care package in...
“When searching for new medicines, one breakthrough can be the foundation that triggers future medicines to be...
The shift is partly a byproduct of a historic realignment that has seen more working-class voters gravitate...
“It’s really quite concerning,” Laura Bachmann, acting director of the CDC’s STD office, told POLITICO. “We need...
Many of the policies they advocate are ones Trump implemented in his first term and President Joe...
For those countries and their advocates, it’s a striking stance — given what happened after Covid arrived:...
“Americans look to you as the highest public health official in the land; it would speak volumes...
Officials expect the law to take effect in roughly 90 days. The Republican-majority House had voted to...
The Biden strategy: The ad released Sunday features a Texas OB-GYN forced to travel out of state...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, warned “the majority of the Republican conference”...
The states are moving because they believe social media is contributing to increasing rates of mental illness...
“Florida has demonstrated that [the drug importation plan] will significantly reduce the cost of [drugs] to the...
DeWine bans gender-affirming surgery for minors one week after veto
“The likelihood of this actually materializing is negligible,” said Eric Miller, a Washington-based trade consultant. “[The FDA...
A prostatectomy, the surgery Austin underwent last month, can be serious and is required for some patients,...
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly interested in space to develop and improve drugs, and to extend their patents....
The high court’s Friday order also effectively allows Idaho to enforce its prohibition on performing abortions, even...
Those initiatives are likely to draw some support from Republican voters. The POLITICO analysis of data from...
“It is no longer the 1960s, and there is no longer the same stigma against the treatment...
“Everyone’s trying to maximize revenue while towing the line on, effectively, fraud,” said Nick Stepro, chief product...
DeWine said he spoke with physicians, lawmakers and families on all sides of the issue before making...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care
There are a lot of tools in the toolbox when it comes to addressing the opioid crisis....
Democrats have long tried to persuade red states to expand the federal Medicaid program and bring health...
Becerra also asked the states to remove barriers to Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment for children no...
The emerging strategy aims to prevent abortion rights groups from notching their third, and largest, set of...
Democrats rejected Sanders’ case, that Bertagnolli had not demonstrated she would “take on the greed and power...
“The thing I’m concerned about is continuity of our surveillance data while this protest is playing out,”...
“If mifepristone stays in the bill it’s dead. If mifepristone comes out it’s dead,” said Rep. Kelly...
Still, abortion opponents’ hopes for Johnson remain high. Some influential conservative groups interpreted those remarks as a...
“There’s no good testing going on and then they’re being used in patient-facing situations — and that’s...
Two other members the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee put on its list of most vulnerable “frontline” incumbents...
They admit there’s no quick fix, so they are batting around ideas, from funding community groups to...
“The CDC is still recommending [the shot] on their website even though it’s nowhere to be found,”...
Congenital syphilis, which was nearly eliminated at the turn of this century, jumped 755 percent over the...
Trump himself has blamed anti-abortion groups and the strict laws they support for electoral defeats in 2022...
While Bertagnolli won confirmation with ease, her road there was rocky. After President Joe Biden tapped her...
Here are POLITICO’s top takeaways from the summit: Advanced AI can improve care — but it comes...
The organization did not disclose where Cox went. On Monday, she would have been 20 weeks and...
When the right to abortion is on the ballot, it wins. It wins in red states that...
When POLITICO asked Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), the chair of the subcommittee overseeing the Department of Health...
‘It’s a problem’ These primary care and hospital challenges have their own ripple effects. The mines and...
Since July, state health plan members seeking drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss...
Private insurers may be reluctant to since Americans typically change insurers every few years. An insurer who...
“All of this confusion is revealing that Dobbs is not itself workable,” said Greer Donley, a law...
“It was stunning how many times senators on both sides of the aisle kept linking constituent problems...
“You’re not going to go back to the old days,” Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the...
McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that oversees the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,...
“Efforts should be made to increase the opening of relevant clinics and treatment areas, extend service hours...
Many children have never previously encountered the viruses or bacteria that can cause illness, and are particularly...
CDC director: Illness in China not caused by new pathogen
American public health experts seconded that assessment in interviews with POLITICO. They said it was likely that...
“There is great promise in many of these tools to save more lives,” said Sen. Mark Warner...
Now, he said in an interview Thursday, while he remains critical of the law, “it’s not that...
