Tag Archives: HHS

Oz Lies That Megabill Adds $200B In Medicaid Funding

“Just to address whether we’re cutting Medicaid or not, we’re putting $200 billion more into Medicaid, more money is going into the program to help our young who are born into poverty, to help seniors who are struggling and the folks with disabilities. “The best part of this bill, without question, is it’s challenging us to go forward and make …

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Kennedy May Fire Obamacare Advisory Task Force

Axios reports: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office has postponed a meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force scheduled for Thursday that was due to discuss healthy diet, physical activity and other steps to prevent cardiovascular disease, sources familiar told Axios. The expert panel makes recommendations for services that health insurers must cover fully under the Affordable Care …

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Senate Panel Advances CDC Nominee In 12-11 Vote

Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one step closer to confirmation. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, a former agency acting director who has held various health-related roles in the federal government for 20 years. Monarez advanced along …

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CDC Announces End To “Bird Flu Emergency Response”

CNN reports: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in cases. “As reports of animal infections with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”) have declined and no human cases have been reported since February 2025, on July 2, 2025, CDC’s H5N1 emergency bird flu …

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Pregnant Doctor Sues After Being Denied COVID Vax

The Guardian reports: A pregnant physician who was denied a Covid-19 vaccine is suing the Trump administration alongside a group of leading doctors associations, charging that the administration sought to “desensitize the public to anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric”, according to their attorney. The lawsuit specifically takes aim at health secretary Robert F Kennedy’s unilateral decision to recommend against Covid-19 vaccines …

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Planned Parenthood Sues Over Megabill Defunding

Axios reports: Planned Parenthood on Monday sued the Trump administration over a one-year funding ban in the Republican tax and spending package, saying it violates the reproductive health group’s constitutional rights. Planned Parenthood has called the provision a “backdoor abortion ban” and said it could lead to the closure of some 200 affiliated clinics nationwide. The just-passed reconciliation bill includes …

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RFK Is Now Claiming Hep B Vaccine Causes Autism

ABC News reports: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt on the hepatitis B vaccine and the established practice of vaccinating newborns. Kennedy claimed, without evidence, earlier this week during an interview with Tucker Carlson, that the CDC conducted a study that found the hepatitis B …

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Top FDA Official Overrode Experts On COVID Vaccines

The New York Times reports: The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. The decisions by the official, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the agency’s new chief medical and scientific officer, stunned agency veterans. Records show that …

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HHS Cancels “Junk” Science Journal Subscriptions

Ars Technica reports: Scientists at several federal agencies are losing access to scientific literature published by Springer Nature, which produces the prestigious journal Nature among many other high-profile titles. That’s according to a report Monday by Nature’s news team, which is also published by Springer Nature, but is editorially independent. According to the news outlet, spokespeople for NASA and the …

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Blue States Sue Over Sharing Medicaid Data With ICE

The Sacramento Bee reports: California on Tuesday led a coalition of states in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said. Bonta cited news reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted what it described as “unfettered access” to …

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Blue States Prevail On HHS Mass Firings (For Now)

The New York Times reports: In an opinion accompanying the order, Judge Melissa R. DuBose of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to wipe out entire programs and reorient the agency’s priorities and work far exceeded his authority. “The executive branch does not have the authority to …

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HHS To Defund “Anti-Science” Global Vax Alliance

The Associated Press reports: U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.” A video of Kennedy’s speech was shown to participants at a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, where the vaccines group was hoping to raise …

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HHS To Run Ads Promoting Healthcare “Wearables”

Reuters reports: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services plans to launch an advertising campaign to encourage Americans to adopt wearable devices, such as those that measure heart rate or blood glucose levels. Shares of continuous glucose-monitoring device makers Abbott and Dexcom were up 3.6% and 10%, respectively, in afternoon …

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NIH To Phase Out Guidelines On HIV Treatments

The Washington Post reports: The National Institutes of Health’s support for federal guidelines that steer the treatment of more than a million HIV patients in the United States will be phased out by next June, according to the agency’s Office of AIDS Research, a move that troubled some doctors and raised questions about whether the guidelines themselves will change. It …

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HHS Threatens To Defund California Over Sex Ed

The Hill reports: The Trump administration gave California a 60-day deadline to overhaul its sex education program or risk losing federal funding. California must eliminate “all gender ideology references” in its program and curriculum, the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services said in a letter to the state. “The Trump Administration will not …

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HHS Axes Suicide Prevention Hotline For LGBTQ Youth

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has instructed the national suicide prevention hotline to stop offering specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers next month, saying those callers can rely on the hotline’s general services. The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that has provided that specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers to the 988 suicide prevention hotline, said Wednesday that it had …

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US To End Guidance On Limiting Alcohol Consumption

Reuters reports: U.S. Dietary Guidelines are expected to eliminate the long-standing recommendation that adults limit alcohol consumption to one or two drinks per day, according to three sources familiar with the matter, in what could be a major win for an industry threatened by heightened scrutiny of alcohol’s health effects. The updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which could be released …

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HHS Gave ICE Officials Data About Medicaid Enrollees

The Associated Press reports: Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data — including the immigration status — on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block …

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RFK Announces US-Argentina Alternative To WHO

The Hill reports: The top health authorities of the U.S. and Argentina are launching what they call an “alternative international health system” separate from the World Health Organization (WHO). On the first day of his second term, President Trump signed an executive starting the yearlong process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. In February, Argentinian President Javier Milei followed …

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CDC Detects New COVID Variant At US Airports

CBS News reports: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s airport screening program has detected multiple cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, which has been linked to a large surge of the virus in China. Cases linked to the NB.1.8.1 variant have been reported in arriving international travelers at airports in California, Washington state, Virginia and the New York …

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