President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order to establish a Make America Healthy Again Commission, just hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. Kennedy will chair the task force, focused on investigating the “root causes of America’s escalating health crisis.” First, the commission will ...

As obesity rates rise across the U.S., a new study from UnitedHealthcare and the Health Action Council examines the financial costs that this growing “epidemic” may cause for employers. The report (PDF) notes that 75% of adults in U.S. are either overweight or obese, up from 50% in 1990. Obesity rates grew fastest among younger adults, according ...

Employers and benefits advisors could use a new database to find places where kidney care or diabetes care costs a lot more than it should.

In 2023, U.S. health expenditures surged by 7.5%, reaching $4.9 trillion, or an average of $14,570 per person, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

A new study published on Feb. 12 says that eating yogurt could do more than just provide a delicious breakfast or snack – it could prevent colon cancer. In the study, which was published in the journal “Gut Biomes,” doctors and scientists from Mass General Brigham examined two studies of more than 150,000 people who ...

The Trump administration has tasked two top political appointees with monitoring the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to key systems inside the health agency responsible for managing Medicare and Medicaid, according to internal emails obtained by POLITICO. The appointees, Kim Brandt and John Brooks, are leading the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ “collaboration” with ...