Joseph Choi
Health Care Reporter at The Hill
Reporting on health care @thehill | Multimedia Journalist | Mastodon: @[email protected] Interned: The Daily News Journal / The Tennessean / WKRN News-2
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6 days ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
The department had a discretionary budget of about $121 billion in fiscal year 2024, but the Trump administration is now seeking to reduce that budget to about $80 billion in fiscal year 2026, according to a preliminary budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Joseph Choi
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday its member states had reached an agreement on preparing for and responding to future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations. With negotiations having launched in 2021, WHO member states have compiled a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly next month.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
During a hastily called press conference Wednesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested without evidence that “environmental toxins” in food and medicine were to blame for rising autism rates. “One of the things I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that the autism prevalence increases, the relentless increases, are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria,” Kennedy said.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech |Joseph Choi
The Trump administration is potentially undoing decades of work to mitigate the HIV epidemic and holding up upcoming progress by slashing the country’s public health workforce, experts say. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to severely cut the workforce of his department, entire offices dedicated to helping combat the epidemic were gutted, worrying HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) experts.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Joseph Choi
A group of Democratic senators are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to keep a proposed Biden-era rule that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover drugs used to treat obesity after the Trump administration decided not to finalize it. Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.) and Gary Peters (Mich.) asked that Kennedy reissue the rule proposed under former President Biden.
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