CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz is urging states to utilize Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) awards to license pharmacists to prescribe and dispense medications to help alleviate travel for patients in underserved areas.
The next meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has apparently been postponed; dates for the meeting, which was scheduled for late October and expected to take up hepatitis B vaccination, no longer appear on CDC’s website.
FDA’s device center has laid out a guidance agenda for fiscal 2026 that includes high-profile topics like use of real-world evidence and predetermined change control plans for which final guidance is expected.
The next meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has apparently been postponed; dates for the meeting, which was scheduled for late October and expected to take up hepatitis B vaccination, no longer appear on CDC’s website.
The White House reauthorized two boards that give advice to the administration on HIV strategy but is staying silent on why two meetings scheduled earlier this year were canceled and whether it plans to change the members of the committees.
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz is urging states to utilize Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) awards to license pharmacists to prescribe and dispense medications to help alleviate travel for patients in underserved areas.
SAN DIEGO -- AdvaMed CEO Scott Whitaker said he believes FDA has enough user fee-supported reserve funds to conduct medical device reviews through the ongoing government shutdown, but he wants assurances from the agency those funds won’t be used for other purposes.
A coalition of civil society groups and health care professionals is pressing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to enact a bill they say would help protect consumers from exchanges with chatbots that pose as licensed health providers by applying existing laws against such impersonations to the technology companies creating them.
CMS is weighing next steps after a federal court in Texas recently struck down the agency’s authority to conduct Medicare Advantage RADV audits for payment years 2018 and beyond, including the broad MA audits the agency launched earlier this year.
The Senate confirmed 107 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a block vote Tuesday (Oct. 7), including two HHS leadership nominees who have attracted controversy over their vaccine skepticism and opposition to abortion.
