David Lim

Washington, D.C.

Health Reporter at POLITICO

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Kennedy’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule

2 days ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner |David Lim

The new work group could open the door to changes to vaccine recommendations. Dr. Joseph Hibbeln, right, a member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, listens during a meeting of the panel Wednesday at the CDC in Atlanta.<br/> | Mike Stewart/AP ATLANTA — At the first meeting of the CDC’s panel of outside vaccine advisers since Health Secretary Robert F.
CMS finalizes plan to narrow Obamacare enrollment, DACA sign ups

1 week ago | politico.com | David Lim

The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he aimed to stop a "surge of improper enrollments" in the subsidized health insurance program. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The Trump administration is tightening eligibility for Obamacare coverage in what it says is a bid to combat a “surge of improper enrollments” and to lower insurance costs broadly.
New HIV drug’s global access hangs in the balance

1 week ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

With Carmen Paun Health experts worry that the newly approved HIV drug, lenacapavir, won't reach those in poorer countries now that the U.S. has cut its foreign aid. | Nardus Engelbrecht/AP ACCESS WOES FOR HIV DRUG — HIV and global health activists say the deployment of Gilead’s twice-a-year HIV prevention shot is the world’s best chance to beat back the virus and prevent new infections, Carmen reports.
BIO chair: U.S. has a ‘crisis’ on drug costs

1 week ago | politico.com | Lauren Gardner |David Lim

Genentech's Fritz Bittenbender, newly elected as the Biotechnology Innovation Organization's board chair, says the U.S. faces an existential crisis around several health policies. | Genentech NEW BIO CHAIR’S POLICY TAKE — The biotech industry faces a mix of longstanding and novel political challenges amid President Donald Trump’s second term. One of its chief lobbying arms is gearing up to take them on.
The ACIP fallout

2 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire all of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' members and replace them is unprecedented. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images THE NEW MAKEUP OF CDC’S VACCINE PANEL — Days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
MAHA’s silence on tobacco

2 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim

With Robert King and Erin Schumaker HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s apparent lack of interest in combating smoking suggests this Trump administration won’t be like the first. | Francis Chung/POLITICO A REPORT OMISSION — HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again report did little to discuss one of the biggest contributors to chronic disease and the leading cause of preventable death in the United States: smoking.
There’s one vice RFK Jr. isn’t talking about

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen |David Lim

“Attempting to combat chronic disease without tobacco control is like attempting a triathlon without a bicycle,” said Brian King, whom Kennedy pushed out of his job as the Food and Drug Administration’s top tobacco regulator in April.
RFK Jr. guts ACIP. What happens next?

2 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed 17 vaccine experts from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Monday. | Francis Chung/POLITICO ACIP FIRINGS ROCK WASHINGTON — HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly removed 17 vaccine experts from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Monday — and Washington is already reeling.
How much money will the FDA get next year?

3 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

Sen. John Hoeven, who's in charge of FDA appropriations, says that the agency will be adequately funded. | Francis Chung/POLITICO FDA APPROPS INCHES FORWARD — House appropriators advanced a bill to fund the FDA for fiscal 2026 on a party-line vote out of a subcommittee Thursday — but the bill has a long path ahead before it potentially becomes law. The topline number from the House bill aligns with President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, which sought $6.8 billion for the FDA.
DOJ Already Filing Material Support Charges After Designating Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations | JD Supra

3 weeks ago | jdsupra.com | Robert J. DeNault |David Lim |Brent Wible

On February 20, 2025, the United States designated eight cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). Since then, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has already brought three indictments charging individual defendants alleged to be leaders or members of cartels or TCOs with providing material support to these newly-designated FTOs, under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B.