Author: Scott Welch
US health officials met with with Walmart Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and other retailers this week as part of an effort to help Americans get their medicines more directly from companies that make them, according to people familiar with the talks. The conversations between the Trump administration and experts from the nascent straight-to-consumer drug industry are ...
Genetic testing company 23andMe’s recent sale to a research institute “does not comply” with California’s landmark genetic privacy law, state Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said Monday. What happened: Bonta’s office said the terms of 23andMe’s sale, approved Friday by a federal bankruptcy judge, run afoul of the state’s Genetic Information Privacy Act, which requires companies to ...
Summer heat has swept the U.S., with warnings issued across the East Coast and Midwest. In addition to putting stress on the body, hot weather can also take a toll on the brain and mental health. Dr. Jace Reed, director of emergency psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, emphasized in an interview with Fox News Digital ...
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected key Medicaid provisions in the Senate GOP megabill, a ruling that appears to strike a major blow to Republicans’ strategy for cutting federal spending. The Senate’s referee rejected a plan to cap states’ use of health care provider taxes to collect more federal Medicaid funding, a proposal that would have generated ...
Senate committees have released their portions of a Republican megabill that could have major implications for Nevada, offering tweaks that are somewhat more favorable to the state on issues but harsher on Medicaid and no tax on tips.
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy and 23 other House Republicans are urging Senate Republicans to put a slew of provisions related to health savings accounts back in the GOP’s megabill.
The number of people using HealthCare.gov and other Affordable Care Act public exchange programs to get health coverage will fall 40% in 2026, but the programs will still serve 15.4 million people.
More than a dozen House Republicans warned they won’t support the Senate’s version of the tax and spending bill because the proposed Medicaid cuts are too steep. Led by Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), 15 other vulnerable Republicans sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) saying they support the Medicaid reforms in the ...
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo on June 12 vetoed a bill that would have established minimum staffing ratios for certain hospitals in the state. Four notes: 1. The bill, introduced Feb. 3, applied to hospitals with more than 70 licensed beds located in counties with a population of at least 100,000 people. It would have required such hospitals to meet ...