Organizations across the global health and humanitarian sectors respond to the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO and many warn that the decision risks weakening international coordination, disease surveillance, and emergency preparedness.
Through this RFI, HHS is inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on how the Department can use its regulatory, reimbursement, and research & development levers across all of HHS to enable AI adoption to propel the American health care system forward.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its AI Strategy, the next phase of the Department’s transformative initiative to make artificial intelligence available to the federal workforce, integrating it across internal operations, research, and public health.
This week’s Friday Five highlights National Family Caregivers Month—led by the Caregiver Action Network— and shines a spotlight on caregivers’ daily challenges, celebrates their unwavering dedication, and connects them with vital resources and support.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced significant action to make it faster and less costly to develop biosimilar medicines, which are lower-cost “generic” alternatives to biologic drugs that treat serious and chronic diseases. In a new draft guidance, the FDA proposes major updates to simplify biosimilarity studies and reduce unnecessary clinical testing.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, It’s not yet clear how the federal government shutdown will end, but Democrats are continuing to draw attention to the issue they are promoting — the coming expiration of additional subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans. Some Republicans are now going public with their worries about the huge cost increases many of their constituents face.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Fired less than a month after being confirmed as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez appeared at a dramatic Senate hearing alongside another ousted CDC official and directly contradicted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s earlier testimony about why she was fired.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Just days after his firing of the brand-new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a defiant Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, defended that action and others before a sometimes skeptical Senate Finance Committee.
The Health Resources and Services Administration released new data showing HRSA-funded health centers served over 32.4 million patients in 2024 — the most patients ever served in the Health Center Program’s 60-year history.
This program is designed to support communities severely affected by homelessness and to gain insights on effective ways to identify patients, complete treatment, cure infections, and reduce reinfection by Hepatitis C (a liver disease caused by the Hepatitis C virus).
By Rachana Pradhan – For more than a decade, a small team of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked to do just that, issuing national guidelines for clinicians on how to prescribe contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions — including heart disease, lupus, sickle cell disease, and obesity.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Speaking before a live audience on June 23 at Aspen Ideas: Health in Colorado, three former governors — one of whom also served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — discussed what it would take to make the nation’s health care system run more smoothly.
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