Shawn Zeller

2 days ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

President Donald Trump’s plan to make huge cuts to health care programs in the coming fiscal year will get its first airing in Congress this week with a marquee witness: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Expect Republican lawmakers to let Kennedy tout his Make America Healthy Again initiative to combat chronic disease, while Democrats hone in on the massive cuts the administration has proposed for the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies.

1 week ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller |Danny Nguyen

A bipartisan group of Senate and House members has coalesced around proposed legislation to boost patent protections, our Anthony Adragna reports. Set to gain: inventors of medical diagnostics, biotechnology, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence. They’d gain more certainty that their inventions are patentable. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) are the chief sponsors of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act in the Senate.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

The Trump administration has made it clear it is more concerned about making way for innovation in artificial intelligence than in regulating it for safety — most decidedly in Vice President JD Vance’s in Paris two months ago. But Europe is moving ahead with its plans to enforce its AI Act starting 16 months from now anyway, our Claudia Chiappa reports.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Shawn Zeller

In scrapping his predecessor’s plans for regulating artificial intelligence in health care, President Donald Trump has promised an industry-friendly approach focused on spurring innovation. A new report from AdvaMed, the Washington lobbying arm of the medical device industry, lean too far into his laissez-faire inclinations. In fact, the group, which represents major device makers, including Medtronic, Stryker and Abbott, sees the need for a big government role.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Ruth Reader |Shawn Zeller

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook and Instagram, is flooding Washington with ads lawmakers to require his rivals’ app stores to verify shoppers’ ages and require parental consent for kids to download social media apps. If he succeeds in making Google and Apple the focus of kids’ safety legislation, it will show how much headway he has made with his Republican skeptics in Congress, Ruth reports. How’s that?