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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

    Threats to drugmakers have come fast and furious during President Donald Trump’s first five months in office, from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s broadsides about drug safety to Trump’s call for lower prices and tariffs. But at least pharmaceutical companies can look forward to a big tax break. How so?

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

    The 10-year moratorium on state laws regulating artificial intelligence that House Republicans included in they passed last month faces a rocky road, our Anthony Adragna reports. In the House, GOP leaders are getting blowback from conservative members who see the provision as a violation of states’ rights. In the Senate, the provision could be struck by the parliamentarian.

  • 2 weeks ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

    President Donald Trump has proposed massive cuts to health agencies as part of his fiscal 2026 budget plan. This week will reveal more about whether lawmakers plan to sign off. A Senate Appropriations panel will hear from National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya on Tuesday about the administration’s plan to slash 40 percent from the agency’s budget and reorganize its various research centers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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