Health
FDA Seeks Input on Chemical Hazards in Food Safety Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new draft chapter of its preventive controls guidance for human food covering chemical hazards, including...
Law and Order
DEA Places New ADHD Drug Centanafadine Under Schedule III Controls
The Drug Enforcement Administration placed centanafadine, the newly FDA-approved ADHD drug sold as Simtriyo, in Schedule III of the Controlled Substances...
Follow the Money
Labor Department Finalizes Pharmacy Benefit Manager Disclosure Rule
The Labor Department finalized a rule requiring pharmacy benefit management firms and their affiliated brokers and consultants to disclose their...
Science
FDA Proposes New Infant Formula Nutrient Requirements
Infant formula makers would face new nutrient floors and ceilings and mandatory relabeling under a Food and Drug Administration proposal published November...
Social Welfare
New Eligibility Rules Proposed For Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollees
Health insurance Marketplace applicants and enrollees would face new eligibility and verification checks before coverage begins, under a proposal the...
Science
FDA Proposes Cadmium Limits In Processed Baby and Toddler Foods
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published draft guidance limiting cadmium, a toxic transition metal, in processed foods for babies and young children...
Social Welfare
Medicare Rule Targets Drug Copays and PBM Payments
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed eliminating generic-drug copays for about 6 million low-income Medicare enrollees and barring...
Social Welfare
Health Insurance Markets Provide Fewer Choices For Enrollees
Private health insurance market concentration generally increased from 2011 through 2024, leaving enrollees with potentially fewer insurer choices and...
Lobbying Activity
Smith & Nephew Lobbying Rises Amid Medicare Wound-Care Changes
Smith & Nephew Inc. is lobbying on the Medicare physician fee schedule and hospital outpatient payment rules governing skin substitutes, wound-care products...
Social Welfare
Medicare Part D Premium Trial Shortened, Prompts Calls To Reverse
The Trump administration terminated the Medicare Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration in 2026, cutting short a program designed to run through plan...
Health
Compensation for Radiation Victims Faces 2027 Sunset
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), a nearly four-decade-old program providing one-time cash payments to Americans sickened by atomic weapons...
International Affairs
Faster Expanding 2026 Ebola Outbreak Is Second Largest on Record
The 2026 Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus has rapidly become the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, according to a new Congressional Research...
Health
Most Improper Medicaid Payments Due To Lack Of Documents, Not Fraud
The total amount of Medicaid fraud is unknown, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. However, the research distinguishes fraud from the...
Legislation
FDA Proposal to Require GRAS Notices Raises Legal Questions
Whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can require companies to disclose substances they determine are generally recognized as safe (GRAS), without...
Legislation
Health Data Interoperability Still Faces Persistent Barriers
Digital health information interoperability in the United States is a long-term initiative spanning multiple decades, but many obstacles still remain,...
Health
VA Fertility Care Gaps Leave Some Veterans Unaware of Benefits
Around 30,000 veterans had an infertility diagnosis in fiscal year 2025, yet some interested veterans may be unaware of the fertility care available to them...
Health
Federal Watchdog Finds Gaps in DEA, FDA Drug Scheduling Procedures
A recent Government Accountability Office report found that the DEA lacks policies identifying roles, responsibilities, and procedures for scheduling, and...
Social Welfare
Maternal Mortality Reviews Drive Medicaid, Health Equity Changes
State maternal mortality review committees are driving policy changes aimed at preventing pregnancy-related deaths, including expanded postpartum Medicaid...
