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“We’ve got to make sure that that process is in place. We’re working really hard to do it,” Kyle Diamantas, acting FDA commissioner, said Monday about the agency's rare disease initiative framework. “It’s a top priority of mine.” news.bloomberglaw.com/health…
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New from me on the campaign trail!
Visited Lansing, Mich., last week to shadow @tombarrettmi7 as he door-knocked & @WeWill2026 as he held town halls.
It's the costliest House race in the country & both men are leaning into populist health policy ideas.
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New: Top officials at HHS and FDA have been working to balance Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to expand access to buzzy peptides with safety concerns raised by agency scientists. A peek behind the curtain with new details on the path ahead w/ the dream team @rileyraygriffin @g0ingmad @nyahphengsitthy
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The Trump administration is rolling out seismic changes to federal performance evaluations — and workers say they are already eroding morale and diminishing managers’ input. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…
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New: FDA leadership is kicking off a top-to-bottom review of how it approaches approvals for drugs to treat rare diseases. The Rare Disease Framework Initiative will kick off with a meeting on Oct. 28
w/ @RobertLangreth
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First in @BLaw: The leading hospital trade association is challenging the government’s renewed attempt at a 340B drug rebate pilot slated to run early next year, seeking to derail the new discount mechanism for the second time. news.bloomberglaw.com/health…
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As expected, drug industry files first lawsuit against Trump administration's GLOBE drug pricing model: news.bloomberglaw.com/health…
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Abortion providers are facing a loss of legal protections when offering services to out-of-state patients under a legal challenge that threatens to upend reproductive rights.
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A three-judge panel mulled Tuesday what authority it has to review RFK Jr.'s appointments to a federal vaccine advisory panel, weighing whether it will overturn an order suspending the hand-picked selections. news.bloomberglaw.com/health…
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New: Likely Louisiana senator-to-be Julia Letlow is already thinking about her health priorities for 2027, which include implementing a universal breast cancer risk assessment.
It’s personal for Letlow, who shared she had a double mastectomy 3 years ago.
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Update with new details: The Monday rollout of RFK Jr's new vaccine injury initiative included:
-Ribbon cutting of a new NIH clinic focused on vaccine injured people
-A proposal to pay doctors for reporting vaccine injuries
-Modernizing the agency's vaccine adverse event reporting system
-New requirements around electronic health records
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a new vaccine injury research initiative at NIH on Monday
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a new vaccine injury research initiative at NIH on Monday
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. alleging the drug company and its chief executive misled individuals about the safety of its Covid-19 vaccine. news.bloomberglaw.com/health…
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"The fix is in": The end of the fiscal year is crunch time to get federal dollars out the door, and the administration’s penchant for testing the limits of federal spending law gives lawmakers reason to worry the money may expire. w/ @SandhyaWrites news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
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New: @cecelou18 and I dug into the 80+ new hires at the Justice Department's civil rights division, which has pivoted its focus under Trump.
Some come from conservative advocacy & GOP politics. Two new lawyers are facing bar disciplinary proceedings. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
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NEW from @victoriaregisk and @ReporterCioffi
Senate Democrats Circulating Memo Alleging HHS No. 2 Pick Dodged Taxes
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w/@ErinDurkin2
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Really important work analyzing new prior authorization data by my colleagues @jtozz @tanaz115 + @ikeswetlitz. Patients won about half of the time they appealed health insurance denials. For some plans, patients won their appeals around 90% of the time.
🎁: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Food sector stakeholders are duking it out with public health advocates at the White House over a forthcoming definition of ultra-processed foods.
Companies argue it could create new legal risks, while health experts call it a key step toward regulation:
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New #WTHealth podcast back from break! @SandhyaWrites, @AmandaSeitz, and @JoanneKenen with all the health news you might have missed. kffhealthnews.org/podcast/wh…
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Agencies are moving to give political appointees a bigger say in how grant money goes out the door, even as Congress has stalled the White House’s efforts to expand such authorities across the federal government. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
