Nathaniel Weixel

Silver Spring

Health Reporter at The Hill

Health reporter @thehill, former Hill Extra, former @BloombergBNA. New England transplant. RTs ≠ endorsements. Send tips to [email protected]

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Articles

Trump budget draft proposes deep cuts to HHS

3 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.
UnitedHealth Group stock drops sharply as it slashes earnings outlook

4 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel

UnitedHealth Group’s stock dropped sharply on Thursday after the insurance giant slashed its earnings outlook for 2025. The announcement led to a broad drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 527 points, or 1.3 percent. The reason: People enrolled in its Medicare plans needed more care than anticipated. For an insurance company, the less it pays out for its enrollees to get care, the more profit it makes.
Daily GLP-1 pill effective for diabetes and obesity, Eli Lilly says

4 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel

A daily pill from drugmaker Eli Lilly has shown similar effectiveness at helping people reduce blood sugar levels and lose weight compared to leading injectable GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Ozempic, the company announced. The once-daily pill, called orforglipron, helped patients with Type 2 diabetes during late-stage trials and has shown comparable safety results to the injectables, the drugmaker said.
Daily GLP-1 pill effective for diabetes and obesity, Eli Lilly says

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Nathaniel Weixel

A daily pill from drugmaker Eli Lilly has shown similar effectiveness at helping people reduce blood sugar levels and lose weight compared to leading injectable GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Ozempic, the company announced. The once-daily pill, called orforglipron, helped patients with Type 2 diabetes during late-stage trials and has shown comparable safety results to the injectables, the drugmaker said.
Draft budget would slash HHS funding by a third: reports

4 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel

The Trump administration is seeking to slash the Department of Health and Human Services budget by nearly a third, according to multiple reports. An initial draft of the White House budget request calls for dropping the agency’s discretionary budget from its fiscal year 2024 enacted level of about $117 billion to $80 billion in fiscal year 2026, according to the Washington Post.
Kennedy contradicts CDC on autism

5 days 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.
CDC ‘scraping’ to find resources to help states respond to growing measles outbreak

5 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding to an ongoing measles outbreak, even as a large number of cases are not being reported, a senior agency scientist said Tuesday. More than 700 measles infections have been reported nationwide, making 2025 the second-worst on record in decades. There are 561 confirmed in Texas alone since late January, according to the most recent statistics.
Draft budget would slash HHS funding by a third: Reports

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Nathaniel Weixel

The Trump administration is seeking to slash the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget by nearly a third, according to multiple reports. An initial draft of the White House budget request calls for dropping the agency’s discretionary budget from its fiscal 2024 enacted level of about $117 billion to $80 billion in fiscal 2026, according to The Washington Post.
CDC ‘scraping’ to find resources to help states respond to growing measles outbreaks

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Nathaniel Weixel

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding to ongoing measles outbreaks, even as a large number of cases are not being reported, a senior agency scientist said Tuesday. More than 700 measles infections have been reported nationwide, making 2025 the second-worst year on record in decades. There are 561 confirmed cases in Texas alone since late January, according to the most recent statistics.
HHS cuts threaten HIV/AIDS response

5 days 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.