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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 […]

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

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

New Study: Even Subsidized Job-Based Health Insurance Has Become Unaffordable By Wendell Potter Apr 08, 2025   A new study from the Commonwealth Fund confirms a pain that millions of American workers already know: having employer-based health insurance (or job-based, as the study calls it) is no guarantee that workers are protected from financial ruin

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion By Jake Johnson Apr 08, 2025   The federal agency now headed by former television host Mehmet Oz announced Monday that it is substantially boosting payments to privately run Medicare Advantage plans, a boon for an industry notorious for overcharging taxpayers

The Health-Care Executives Who Quit Over Greed By Chris Stanton March 28, 2025   After graduating from college in 1987, Ron Howrigon answered a help-wanted ad in the Sunday paper for a job at Kaiser Permanente, figuring a career in health care would make him a force for good in the world. Later, he made

Family of #WakieshaWilson (Slain Woman), Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and Elected Officials Mark Anniversary of Her Death with New Laws By BLM Grassroots March 26, 2025   The family of Wakiesha Wilson will join Black Lives Matter- Los Angeles and state and federal lawmakers to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of their loved one

How PBMs Took Over the Prescription Drug Chain — And Left Patients and Pharmacists Paying the Price By Luke Sullivan Apr 02, 2025   Americans spent a record $464 billion last year on prescription drugs, according to recent numbers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.   Five years ago that number was $335

Canadian Born Pamela Anderson Gives Shoutout To Universal Healthcare After Father’s Cancer Scare By Jill Goldsmith March 26, 2025   Pamela Anderson, who was back on screen and all over the awards circuit with last year in Gia Coppola’s film The Last Showgirl, said today that “vanity is a prison” as she accepted a Muse

Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she’s never been there, doesn’t speak the language By Sophie Carson March 14, 2025   A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded