CMS takes aim at duplicative ACA, Medicaid enrollments
The Trump administration has put a focus on rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, and on Wednesday, regulators offered a look at progress to date in those efforts.
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Paxton suing Gerber and Nestlé over alleged arsenic and lead in baby food
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Gerber Products Company and its parent company Nestlé USA, Inc., alleging their Gerber baby food products contain dangerous levels of toxic metals, according to a Wednesday press release from his office. “Gerber promised…
Read full article →Senate Republican knocks Trump administration on measles surge: 'Get vaccinated, you don't die'
The chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), argued the Trump administration is not promoting vaccinations vigorously enough amid a massive measles outbreak that has claimed multiple lives in 2026. “My concern as…
Read full article →Why Agentic AI Works in Hospitals When You Strip It Down
Many hospitals are now trying to use AI to automate processes and free up staff time, running simultaneous pilots to perform as many tasks as possible. This quickly leads to pilot sprawl — a state where organizations can no longer…
Read full article →STAT+: FDA adcomm members’ ties to industry under scrutiny
New research found that nearly 40% of FDA advisory meetings held over a recent 20-year period included either a patient or consumer rep with active ties to an advocacy group…
Read full article →STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Sanofi settling an EU antitrust probe, ‘pharma bro’ Shkreli, and more
The FTC asked a U.S. court to hold Martin Shkreli in contempt for “flagrantly” violating a court order banning him from working in the pharma industry
Read full article →STAT+: The startup chasing ‘general biological intelligence’
In this edition of AI Prognosis, Brittany Trang talks to Eric Nguyen, the CEO of Radical Numerics, a startup pursuing "general biological intelligence.'
Read full article →STAT+: Sanofi avoids fine as EU accepts offer to end antitrust probe over disparaging rival vaccine
E.U. antitrust regulators accepted concessions from Sanofi to settle a probe into an allegedly “misleading” campaign that disparaged a rival flu vaccine.
Read full article →New study examines GLP-1 impact on interactions with criminal justice system, employment, housing stability
A wave of clinical trials have begun to test the ability of GLP-1 weight loss drugs to quell various substance use disorders, with some promising results. A new trial announced…
Read full article →Does Stool-Based Test Detect Colorectal Cancer as Well in Women?
(MedPage Today) -- At the standard positivity threshold, fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is likely to miss more colorectal cancers (CRCs) and advanced precancerous lesions (APLs) in women versus men, a retrospective analysis suggested. Among...
Read full article →NIAID Nominee Nixed; CDC Funds Hep B Vax Study; 'Earth-Shaking' Vax Battle
(MedPage Today) -- Steven Quay, MD, PhD, a biopharma executive with no background in infectious diseases, is no longer being considered for director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (STAT) The CDC is allocating new...
Read full article →Real-World Treatment Choices for AMD
(MedPage Today) -- Poor adherence to anti-VEGF therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) remains a major limitation of existing therapies, a review of a large clinical database showed. Almost 40% of patients stopped treatment...
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