Senators ended the seventh day of the government shutdown without another vote on the House-passed continuing resolution and with no signs that will change anytime soon, despite Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) reported effort to get Democrats to agree to move the GOP CR in exchange for a promise to work on extending the enhanced ACA subsidies and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s (R-GA) social media post in support of the enhanced credits.
The White House underscored its concerns that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and weight-loss drugs are overprescribed to children, issuing a statement Monday (Oct. 6) for Child Health Day reiterating that stemming the alleged overprescribing is a focus of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again strategy.
FDA has launched a new pilot program offering faster reviews for generic drugmakers that conduct testing and manufacturing in the United States, a move aimed at boosting domestic pharmaceutical production and reducing reliance on foreign suppliers.
FDA’s former biologics director Peter Marks has a new role at Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company confirmed to Inside Health Policy Tuesday (Oct. 7), serving as senior vice president of molecule discovery and head of its infectious disease program.
FDA is set to hold a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Thursday (Oct. 9) despite the government shutdown, posting an agenda for the meeting online Tuesday (Oct. 7).
SAN DIEGO -- Even though CMS has signaled it won’t issue citations for 60 days to hospitals continuing to provide at-home care to patients admitted to the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) program before the program’s lapse on Oct. 1, some hospitals are still unwilling to serve patients unless they get a firmer commitment from the agency, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).
Six former surgeons general of the United States, including one appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, are joining in the public criticism of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with a Washington Post op-ed accusing him of “endangering the health of the nation” as controversy continues over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine policy shifts, including signals CDC will break up the MMR shot and revoke the recommendation for universal vaccination against hepatitis B at birth.
Trust in maternal COVID-19 vaccination is falling after CDC’s decision to revoke its recommendation for vaccination during pregnancy, according to a recent poll that also found less than half of respondents would be likely to recommend other maternal vaccines which CDC continues to recommend.
As the government shutdown continues into its second week, many legal cases challenging the Trump administration’s health care policies are on hold either because Department of Justice personnel are unavailable or because courts have paused their mandates for the federal government to comply with rulings.
South Carolina is teeing up a potential legal battle over the right to contraceptives that may land at the Supreme Court, according to legal experts, through a state law that would adjust reproductive health definitions to ban access to some contraceptives, including via telehealth.
