Health
Cancer Action Network Parts Ways With Lobbying Group
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network terminated its lobbying relationship with Actum I LLC at the end of the first quarter of 2026, according...
House Committee Examines Role of Temporary Healthcare Providers
More than 120 million Americans live in primary care deserts — communities where the ratio of patients to physicians makes routine care a logistical...
Federal Government Ignores For-Profit Health Startups
For-profit health and medical businesses — from digital health startups to medical device manufacturers — occupy an awkward position in the federal funding...
Home Health Nonprofit Ends Lobbying Efforts Amid Medicare Fight
Visiting Nurse Association Health Group Inc. ended its lobbying relationship with Washington Strategic Consulting Inc. at the close of the First Quarter of...
Kidney Care Access Coalition Ends Checkmate Government Relations Relationship
The Kidney Care Access Coalition Inc. ended its relationship with Checkmate Government Relations LLC in the second quarter of 2026, according to an LDA...
American Dental Education Association Pushes Oral Health Funding
Federal funding for oral health programs and dental education is under pressure on multiple fronts. The American Dental Education Association is pushing for...
Congress Discusses Health Care Price Transparency
Americans routinely pay wildly different prices for the same medical procedure depending on which hospital they visit or which insurer they carry — and most...
Poisoned Pills: Senate Hearing Exposes Drug Safety Crisis for Seniors
Why it matters: The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a generic drug safety hearing on June 3, examining what Chair Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) called a...
A Medicare Drug Cost Crisis Is Quietly Accelerating
A new Congressional Research Service report lays bare the explosive growth in Medicare Part B drug spending — and the competing political forces now...
Congress Debates If Covid Vaccines Cause or Accelerate Cancer
Why it matters: A Senate hearing on COVID-19 vaccines and alleged attacks on scientific publications put the Trump administration's skeptical posture toward...
Mifepristone Regulation Is the Abortion Fight's New Front Line
A new Congressional Research Service report maps a legal battlefield that could reshape how millions of Americans access medication abortion — and puts the...
House Subcommittee Debates Cuts to Labor, Health, and Education
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies convenes Friday for a markup of the FY2027 Labor HHS Education Bill —...
Tariffs Pressure Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property
The Trump administration's decision to slap 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals — combined with an aggressive push to tie American drug prices to the...
Fentanyl Crisis Threatens Older Americans, Senate Examines
Fentanyl from foreign criminal networks is killing Americans at a scale that has reshaped public health and law enforcement priorities — and the Senate...
The Clash Over Science, Covid Policies and Vaccines at the FDA
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is diving into one of the most combustible intersections in American public life: federal health...
VA Faces 30 Unmet GAO Recommendations As Veterans Wait for Care
The Department of Veterans Affairs is sitting on 30 unresolved priority recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, a growing pile of...
Veterans Healthcare Alliance Enters Lobbying Arena Amid VA Restructuring Fight
A new lobbying registration disclosure filed this month signals that the National Alliance for Veterans Healthcare is stepping into federal lobbying for the...
Children's Hospital Association Expands Brownstein on Medicaid
The Children's Hospital Association filed a First Quarter 2026 lobbying disclosure with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, reporting $120,000 in lobbying...