April 20, 2025

White House eyes 30% HHS budget cut: 11 things to know [Becker’s Hospital Review]

White House eyes 30% HHS budget cut: 11 things to know By Madeline Ashley April 17, 2025   The Trump administration is looking to cut the HHS budget by around one-third in an effort that would dramatically scale back federal health programs, The Washington Post reported April 16.   The draft budget for HHS, obtained […]

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How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It [HEALTH CARE un-covered]

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It By Wendy Dean, MD April 18, 2025   It’s conference season, so I’ve been traveling and speaking a lot about moral injury.   Usually, audiences talk about the moral events they face as practitioners. But at a

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UnitedHealth stock craters in worst day since 1998 on ‘unusual and unacceptable’ results [Yahoo Finance]

UnitedHealth stock craters in worst day since 1998 on ‘unusual and unacceptable’ results By Laura Bratton April 18, 2025   UnitedHealth (UNH) stock cratered just over 22% Thursday — its biggest single-day drop since August 1998 — after its first quarter earnings missed expectations and the company cut its full-year profit guidance.   The health

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Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say [MSN]

Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say By Maggie Fick and Marisa Taylor April 18, 2025   LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that fund the regulator’s drug review system, six sources

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40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN’s new workforce report [Becker’s Hospital Review]

40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN’s new workforce report By Erica Carbajal April 17, 2025   While the post-pandemic nursing workforce is showing signs of stabilizing, high levels of burnout, stress and dissatisfaction continue to threaten long-term workforce stability, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s biennial

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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ [MedPage Today]

Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ By Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today April 18, 2025   A federal prosecutor sent a letteropens in a new tab or window to a medical journal editor, probing whether the publication is “partisan” when it comes to “various scientific debates.”   Edward R. Martin

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