AbbVie sues over selection of Botox for IRA negotiations / Endpoints
Nicole DeFeudis / endpoints - AbbVie is suing CMS for picking Botox for the third round of Medicare negotiations, making it the first drugmaker to challenge the upcoming cycle in court. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Washington, DC, AbbVie ...
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Saturday, February 14, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 19169 / 2 stories in 25 days
Kaiser Permanente, DoL reach settlement over mental health access / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has agreed to a settlement with the Department of Labor that resolves multiple investigations into access for mental health and substance abuse services.
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Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:22 pm / permalink 19160 / 4 stories in 25 days
Thousands of NYC nurses return to work, but one major strike goes on / Medical Express
medicalxpress - A monthlong nurses strike in New York City is coming to an end, but not for everyone.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 6:22 pm / permalink 19158 / 4 stories in 25 days
500M records exchanged through TEFCA, federal health IT office boasts / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - At the 2026 Annual Meeting for the health IT office at HHS, officials announced a massive spike in the number of health records shared through the government-backed TEFCA initiative. The number seems to reflect the heavy focus Trump's HHS has put on digit…
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Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:22 pm / permalink 19136 / 4 stories in 25 days
Federal judge blocks $602M in CDC cuts to 4 states / Beckers
Kelly Gooch / beckershospitalreview - A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois granted a temporary restraining order Feb. 12 blocking the Trump administration from terminating more than $600 million in CDC-administered public health grants to California, Colorado, Illinois and Min…
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Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 19130 / 4 stories in 26 days
FDA refuses to review Moderna flu vaccine / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - Moderna has received a refusal-to-file letter from the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research for its biologics license application for mRNA-1010, its investigational seasonal influenza vaccine. The letter, signed by Vinayak Prasad, MD, chief …
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 10:25 am / permalink 19026 / 15 stories in 28 days
Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide / The Conversation
Charles Z. Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead Univers / theconversation - The recent retraction of peer-reviewed research claiming glyphosate is safe confirms what Indigenous communities have said for years.
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Monday, February 9, 2026, 12:21 am / permalink 18916 / 2 stories in 4 wks
Public Health Department confirms first 2026 measles case in Los Angeles County / Medical Express
medicalxpress - The Department of Public Health has confirmed the first measles case this year in Los Angeles County. Officials say the person who tested positive for measles had recently traveled outside the country. The department is now working to identify people who …
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 18903 / 21 stories in 4 wks
World Cancer Day: A Global Call to Awareness and Action 2026, Part 2 / OncoDaily
oncodaily - World Cancer Day is observed annually on February 4 and was established in 2000 at the World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium in Paris. The initiative was led […]
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 18896 / 162 stories in 4 wks
HHS launches $100M homelessness, addiction treatment initiative / Beckers
Ella Ruder / beckershospitalreview - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a $100 million federal initiative to address homelessness, opioid addiction and public safety following President Donald Trump’s executive order creating the Great American Recovery Initiative. The Safety Throu…
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 18894 / 4 stories in 4 wks
MultiCare agrees to $3.7M settlement over allegations it knowingly allowed unnecessary surgeries / Fierce
fiercehealthcare - The DOJ said MultiCare had allowed a former physician to perform spinal surgery procedures at its facilities between 2019 and 2021 despite warnings from two employees and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 18885 / 2 stories in 4 wks
HHS to drop 340B rebate pilot after court rulings / Beckers
Ella Jeffries / beckershospitalreview - HHS will drop its 340B rebate model pilot program following two federal court rulings that blocked its implementation. The program, announced in August 2025, was challenged by the American Hospital Association, the Maine Hospital Association and four safe…
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 6:21 am / permalink 18879 / 3 stories in 4 wks
#ISC26: Bayer’s asundexian reduced ischemic strokes by 26% in Phase 3 trial / Endpoints
Ayisha Sharma / endpoints - Bayer shared more details from its unexpected win in a Phase 3 study testing its next-generation blood thinner for secondary stroke prevention. The factor XIa inhibitor, named asundexian, reduced the occurrence of ischemic stroke by ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3:21 am / permalink 18873 / 2 stories in 4 wks
AI model reads brain MRIs in seconds, hitting up to 97.5% accuracy / Medical Express
medicalxpress - An AI-powered model developed at the University of Michigan can read a brain MRI and diagnose a person in seconds, a study suggests. The model detected neurological conditions with up to 97.5% accuracy and predicted how urgently a patient required treatme…
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 3:21 am / permalink 18872 / 6 stories in 4 wks
Eikon Therapeutics Raises $381 M in IPO to Advance Live-Cell Imaging in Cancer Drug Discovery / OncoDaily
oncodaily - Eikon Therapeutics has raised $381 million through its IPO, pricing at the top of its range in a strong sign of renewed investor appetite for biotech offerings. The South San […]
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 18871 / 2 stories in 4 wks
High Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods May Be Linked to Cancer Survivors’ Risk of Death / American Association for Cancer Research
Kathleen Medora / aacr - PHILADELPHIA – Cancer survivors who consumed higher amounts of ultraprocessed foods as part of their diet had a significantly increased risk of both all-cause and cancer-specific death, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & P…
Saturday, February 7, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 18870 / 4 stories in 4 wks
A newborn's death likely linked to the mom drinking raw milk while pregnant / ABC News
go - Health officials in New Mexico have said a newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child's mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 18868 / 2 stories in 4 wks
HHS scraps 340B rebate pilot in win for hospitals / Healthcare Dive
Emily Olsen / healthcaredive - The Trump administration agreed to drop a controversial pilot that would have allowed drugmakers to give post-sales rebates on some drugs instead of upfront discounts.
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Saturday, February 7, 2026, 12:23 am / permalink 18867 / 5 stories in 4 wks
Statin pills much safer than advertised, major review finds / BBC
bbc - The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.
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Thursday, February 5, 2026, 8:24 pm / permalink 18820 / 3 stories in 4 wks
Plastic Surgeons’ Group Advises Delaying Gender-Affirming Procedures Until Age 19 / NYT
Andrew Jacobs / nytimes - The organization’s latest guidance is a departure from the prevailing views of several other major medical organizations.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 18793 / 6 stories in 4 wks