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An adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Means is leaving his influential role before having met some of his goals, such as reworking the definition of ultraprocessed food and changing school meals, Bloomberg reported. “This movement is in the first inning and just getting started,” he said.
About 390,000 UnitedHealth Group members and about 600,000 Humana members will lose coverage, mostly from Preferred Provider Organizations plans, The Hill and Fortune reported.
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Three individuals joined the Florida Academy of Family Physicians in asking an administrative court to block Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to eliminate requirements that schoolchildren and children attending child care or daycare be vaccinated against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), and pneumococcal conjugate, Florida Phoenix reported.
"Our findings suggest that testosterone use is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events in postmenopausal women," one of the researchers told MedPage Today, emphasizing that the observational findings do not indicate a causal link and more studies are needed.
The departure of Rita Kalyani, the organization's chief scientific and medical officer, comes after an incident at a June meeting in which five association members were escorted out for handing out an editorial voicing concern over cuts to federal research funding, Stat reported.
Health officials in Washington and California in May asked the CDC to validate a high-volume test amid measles outbreaks, but the West Coast Health Alliance recently told Director Erica Schwartz that it took two months for the agency to respond. According to the response letter obtained by The New York Times, there were "other competing priorities."
The court's decision lets stand a lower court's block on a policy that would have allowed the Trump administration to immediately enforce restrictions on gender-affirming care for people held in federal prisons. The legal reasoning behind the ruling was not made clear, AP reported.
Between the cost of inflation, network negotiations, and prior authorization pressures, some companies and health systems are betting on themselves to untangle the web and provide better health insurance for patients, Modern Healthcare reported.
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In its final analysis of national birth trends for 2025, researchers noted a 7% drop in teen pregnancies from 2024 and a 3% rise in women delaying having kids until their 30s. Plus, a look at what is happening in Idaho after the state banned abortions.
The largest union for California government workers, representing more than 100,000 employees, will picket today in cities across the state for the first time in the union's history. The strike is over a return-to-work mandate, and the union is also calling for increased wages and state contribution toward employees’ healthcare costs.
Doctors tell ABC News that multiple sclerosis symptoms can sometimes resemble other conditions and there is no single test that can diagnose it. Other public health news is on organ transplants, painkillers, ADHD, and tea for heart health.
Health officials are urging women to get the MMR vaccine before they get pregnant. Meanwhile the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a third U.S. measles death as the total number of cases for the year surpasses 4,400. Also: flu, salmonella, Ebola, and more.
According to a recent poll, nearly half of the parents surveyed thought spacing out vaccines is healthier, while 52% said there is no strong evidence that doing so is better. CIDRAP also reported a significant split down party lines.
Hospitals could be saddled with higher administrative and legal costs as CMS expands its fraud oversight authority without clearly detailing how providers could challenge any decisions, Modern Healthcare reported.
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