43 articles in the Health category.
By Tommy Flynn
Prescription drug prices in the United States fell 3.1 percent over the 12 months ending in July, the steepest year-over-year drop since March 1963, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The broader category of medicinal drugs declined 2.7 percent over the same period....
By Tommy Flynn
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a rule on Tuesday that prohibits the use of federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funds to pay for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures intended to address gender dysphoria in...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday establishing new federal “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations” that reduce the number of immunizations advised for all children and specifically call for administering the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine...
By Tommy Flynn
Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-issued cellphone reveal that in late January 2021 the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately discussed a risk that reactions to the second dose of COVID-19 mRNA...
By Tommy Flynn
Staten Island artist and conservative activist Scott LoBaido suffered cardiac arrest Tuesday night after attempting to confront New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a pro-police event, later revealing that he “actually died for 2 minutes” before being revived by emergency...
By Tommy Flynn
Federal authorities announced charges against 19 defendants accused of participating in fraudulent home health care schemes that submitted more than $4 million in false claims to Medicare and Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the...
By Tommy Flynn
Newly released personal diary notes from Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal that in early February 2020 he privately assessed the case fatality rate of COVID-19 at 0.2 to 0.3 percent—comparable to a severe seasonal flu—roughly one month before he told Congress the virus was approximately...
By Tommy Flynn
Newly released personal notes kept by former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic contain assessments that diverge sharply from his public statements and congressional testimony on the...
By Tommy Flynn
The Trump administration has deferred more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, citing suspected fraud, noncompliance, and the need for additional documentation on high-risk claims. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in New York has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Justice from obtaining identifying medical records of transgender minors who received gender-affirming care at federally funded hospitals in New York City, including NYU Langone and...
By Tommy Flynn
Washington, D.C. — Newly declassified U.S. intelligence documents include an email circulating a 2016 video in which EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak described colleagues in China manipulating coronavirus spike proteins from bats to test their ability to bind to human...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced a major expansion of the TrumpRx.gov platform on Monday, adding more than 600 generic medications to the direct-to-consumer discount site through partnerships with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs, Amazon Pharmacy, and GoodRx. The...