
Steven Ross Johnson
Public Health Reporter at U.S. News and World Report
Public Health Reporter @usnews. Former population health reporter @modrnhealthcr. Reach me at: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
usnews.com | Steven Ross Johnson
The tumult of President Donald Trump’s second term has trickled down from federal agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., to state and local health departments, kicking off a new era fraught with uncertainty even as some of these leaders on the front lines of public health are still struggling to recover from the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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3 weeks ago |
usnews.com | Steven Ross Johnson
New provisional data indicates drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plummeted in 2024 by nearly 30% compared with 2023, with projections pointing to the lowest level since 2019. Estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate the total number of drug overdose deaths fell 27% from 110,037 to 80,391.
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3 weeks ago |
usnews.com | Steven Ross Johnson |Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order seeking to lower drug prices in the U.S. by having the government pay the same costs for medications as is paid in other countries. Trump at a press briefing said the plan involved establishing a “most favored nation” pricing policy to reduce the cost the government pays for medications to those comparable to what other countries pay.
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4 weeks ago |
usnews.com | Steven Ross Johnson
The Food and Drug Administration has named a vocal critic of the agency’s policies around administration of the COVID-19 vaccine to be the next head of the center responsible for regulating vaccines and gene therapies. FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary on Tuesday announced Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist/oncologist, as his pick to lead the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in a post on social media.
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1 month ago |
usnews.com | Steven Ross Johnson
They sit in different parts of the country and have different climates and different economic engines. Politically and culturally, they’re not an across-the-board monolith.
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