Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata report for the New York Times that a new pill to be taken each day could do as much to lower blood sugar and help with weight loss as Ozempic and Mounjaro, injectable...
Diane Archer
Funding cuts put community health centers at risk
Thousands of federally-funded community health centers throughout the country deliver free and low-cost outpatient services to tens of millions of uninsured and lower-income Americans each year...
Attention mounts on Medicare Advantage fraud and abuse
More Democrats and Republicans in Congress are speaking out and raising alarms about Medicare Advantage. If Republicans need to find savings to pay for their tax cuts, they need look no further than...
Poll: Costs remain a major barrier to care
When you’re looking at people’s opinions about health care, it’s important to keep in mind that 85 percent of adults in the US say that their health is good or better than good. These...
When will Medicare stop letting Part D insurers drive up drug...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, which oversees Medicare, now has authority to negotiate prescription drug prices for some Part D drugs each year. But, Christen Linke Young writes for...
Improving our food would improve our health
Back in January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a rule that would change food labeling in ways that could improve our health. More recently, Secretary of Health and Human Services...
Tariffs will likely drive drug prices higher and create drug...
Most prescription drugs Americans take are manufactured outside the United States. President Trump has not imposed tariffs on these imported drugs yet, but, if he does, prescription drug prices are...
Medicare Advantage overpayments drive up Medicare premiums by...
If Republicans are serious about eliminating government waste and protecting Medicare and Medicaid, they will end Medicare Advantage overpayments; in addition to strengthening Medicare, ending these...
The dangers of vitamin A and E supplements
Americans spend billions and billions of dollars on vitamin supplements each year. But too many supplements can deliver more harms than benefits, including liver injury, joint, muscle and vision...
DOGE causes chaos at Social Security
Michael Sainato reports for The Guardian on the utter chaos at the Social Security Administration (SSA). DOGE, the “Department of Government Efficiency,” has been closing Social Security...