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15 articles in the Health category.

A healthcare worker prepares a syringe with a vaccine dose at a medical station.
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HealthPoliticsApril 16, 2026

Auditors praise Trump anti-fraud healthcare proposal

By Andrew Rice | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – A coalition of 14 state financial leaders across the country backed a Trump administration policy to reduce fraud in health-care systems. The group of state financial officers wrote a letter Wednesday to the Trump administration praising a policy from the...

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US NewsHealthApril 8, 2026

California Man Pleads Guilty to Submitting Over $270 Million in Fraudulent Medicare and Medi-Cal Claims

By Tommy Flynn

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Paul Richard Randall, a Southern California man, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating one of the largest single-person healthcare fraud schemes in recent years, submitting more than $270 million in false claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal for prescription...

President Trump signs the Executive Order creating the Fraud Task Force
US NewsHealthApril 4, 2026

California Hospice With 97% Survival Rate Accused of $7.45 Million Medicare Fraud

By Tommy Flynn

WASHINGTON – Federal agents targeted a California hospice that reported a staggering 97% patient survival rate, accusing it of defrauding Medicare of $7.45 million by enrolling patients who were not terminally ill. The facility, one of 221 hospice and healthcare providers...

Pfizer and BioNTech Halt COVID-19 Booster Trial Due to Lack of Willing Participants
US NewsHealthApril 3, 2026

Pfizer and BioNTech Halt COVID-19 Booster Trial Due to Lack of Willing Participants

By Tommy Flynn

WASHINGTON – Pfizer and BioNTech announced on April 2, 2026, that they have terminated their latest COVID-19 booster clinical trial after failing to recruit enough willing volunteers. The study was designed to evaluate a new monovalent booster targeting currently circulating...

The Trump Rx website
US NewsHealthMarch 27, 2026

TrumpRx Platform Sees Steady Growth in Discounted Prescription Offerings, Delivering Major Savings as Key Pillar of MAHA Initiative

By Tommy Flynn

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s TrumpRx.gov website, launched as a centerpiece of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, continues to expand rapidly, adding new medications and pharmaceutical partners while providing cash-pay patients with dramatic price...

AI generated image of a doctor writing on a clipboard
US NewsHealthMarch 15, 2026

Massive Medicare Fraud Probe in California Links $600M in Billing to Single Doctor's ID

By RWTNews Staff

Federal investigators have uncovered a sprawling Medicare fraud scheme in Los Angeles County, where agencies billed nearly $600 million from 2021 to 2024 using the provider number of 87-year-old Nevada-based doctor Gilbert Faustina, who denies any involvement. The billing, which...

Sen. Hawley meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office after lunch in the Rose Garden, Tuesday, October 21, 2025
US NewsHealthMarch 12, 2026

Hawley Introduces Bill to Ban Abortion Pill Mifepristone, Revoke FDA Approval

By RWTNews Staff

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act on March 11, 2026, aiming to ban mifepristone for abortion use and withdraw its FDA approval granted in 2000. At a Capitol Hill news conference featuring testimonies from women harmed by the...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri attends the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 16, 2023
PoliticsHealthDecember 8, 2025

Republicans divided over how to address rising health care costs

By Thérèse Boudreaux

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate will hold a doomed vote next week on Democrats’ bill to extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies for three more years. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, have not decided on an alternative health care bill, despite millions of Americans’...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, June 26, 2025.
US NewsHealthDecember 3, 2025

Johnson: Democrats 'broke the system' of U.S. health care

By Thérèse Boudreaux

“Health care is a very complex issue. And I want to point this out, it is not the Republicans who broke American health care,” Johnson told reporters. “The Democrats broke health care when they created the unaffordable care act 15 years ago..."

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on the America First Healthcare Plan Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020
PoliticsHealthNovember 18, 2025

Trump Engages Democrats on Proposal to Redirect ACA Subsidies as Direct Payments to Americans

By Tommy Flynn

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent elaborated in an ABC News interview on November 9 that the plan could save $50-60 billion yearly by eliminating insurer middlemen, who retain 12-15% for overhead, while empowering individuals to select coverage tailored to needs.

A psychoanalyst holding a clipboard facing a blue haired female patient on a couch. AI image.
US NewsHealthNovember 15, 2025

Psychotherapist Validates Trump Derangement Syndrome as Real Condition, Affecting 75% of Patients

By Tommy Flynn

TDS gained traction as a descriptor post-2016, coined by commentators to characterize intense opposition to Trump, but Alpert framed it as a "defining pathology of our time," warranting study akin to mass hysteria cases.

An anti-fluoride sticker is seen on an overpass
US NewsHealthNovember 13, 2025

Momentum Builds to End Fluoride in Public Water Supplies

By RWTNews Staff

These developments follow a landmark federal court ruling in September 2024, when U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate fluoride as a toxic substance, citing scientific evidence of an "unreasonable risk" to children's IQ.