The official purpose of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s marathon Senate confirmation hearings this week was for lawmakers to decide if Kennedy is fit to oversee 80,000 employees and a $1.8 trillion annual ...

CDC data’s “explicit purpose” is to guide researchers toward the places and people who most need attention, Patrick Sullivan, an epidemiologist at Emory University and a former CDC Epidemic ...

HHS oversees 13 operating divisions, including the FDA, CDC, CMS and the National Institutes of Health, as well as more than one dozen offices. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to lead HHS, will ...

The Biden administration, in its last full weekday in office, announced the next 15 drugs up for Medicare price negotiation. Blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic is on the list. That means the ...

The Biden administration has announced the next 15 drugs chosen for Medicare negotiation, marking one of its final acts before President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The Centers for Medicare and ...

NBC News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel speaks with Gadi Schwartz about the difference in symptoms between a cold and the flu and explains the CDC's urge for faster testing to find human ...

Publication of the list kicks off a monthslong process that will feature a series of meetings between drugmakers and the CMS, which oversees the Medicare insurance program. The negotiations ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals loathe so-called site-neutral policy, the idea that Medicare should pay hospitals’ outpatient clinics the same, lower amounts as independent physicians’ offices for ...

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new recommendation for hospitals to accelerate the process of confirming cases of H5N1 in patients. The agency is ...

The CDC recommends that this subtyping occur as soon as possible following admission — ideally within 24 hours — to determine whether the virus is a seasonal influenza A subtype (i.e. A[H1] and A[H3]) ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...

Teen Lifestyles Were Less Healthy in 2023 Compared to 2013, CDC Report Shows By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. teenagers still struggle to make ...