Carmen Paun

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Carmen Paun |Robert King

“It’s made up,” Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz said when asked by POLITICO about the 85 percent figure.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller |Carmen Paun

The House plans to try again soon to reauthorize the landmark opioid-fighting law President Donald Trump signed during his first term. The SUPPORT Act expired nearly two years ago, though Congress has continued to fund the programs it authorized. The original act authorized billions of dollars in treatment, prevention and recovery funding, including programs for opioid abuse and expanded access to addiction medicines such as buprenorphine. More than to it in preparation for a floor vote.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Carmen Paun

The State Department wants to stop funding neglected tropical diseases because it doesn’t make Americans safer, it said in its budget request for the 2026 fiscal year. The department has also ended most ongoing projects fighting these diseases as part of the Trump administration’s foreign aid review, which aimed to bring it in line with the president’s ‘America First’ policy.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Carmen Paun |Kelly Hooper

With Erin Schumaker and Robert King Secretary of State Marco Rubio's move to revoke Chinese students' visas could have far-reaching effects on medical research in the U.S. | John McDonnell/Getty Images VISITING FELLOWS UNDER THREAT — The National Institutes of Health’s visiting fellows program could be hit hard by the Trump administration’s plan to review and revoke visas for international students, Erin reports.

1 month ago | politico.com | Carmen Paun |Shawn Zeller

The United Nations is working on a make-the-world-healthy agenda for 2030. How so: World leaders are meeting September 25 on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases and promoting mental health and well-being. Participating leaders — names are still to be confirmed — are expected to adopt a political declaration that, while not legally binding, pressures governments to align behind the same goals.