The Latest Breaking News from HHS

The U.S. is shifting its monkeypox response efforts to increasingly target hard-hit sexual and racial minority groups that bear the brunt of the country’s outbreak.

Insurers argue that drug companies’ copay assistance programs allow drug companies to steer patients toward expensive brand-name drugs.

President Joe Biden’s administration has announced that it’s accelerating the distribution of 1.8 million monkeypox vaccines. While a positive development, it can’t paper over the government’s multiple missteps in responding to this crisis.

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US government’s 2020-2025 guidance is meat- and dairy-heavy. Experts say that isn’t sustainable

The ruling argues that HHS guidance ignores provisions in a 1986 law stating the health of the fetus must be considered. 

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Every delay intensifies concern that the government is fumbling the early response to another emerging health threat.

As more abortion bans are enacted, health providers worry about how they can best protect their patients' health information.

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, its authors cited three overarching goals: to improve access to health care, to slow rising medical costs and to improve health outcomes.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the Biden administration July 14 after Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released guidance July 11 requiring doctors to provide abortions in medical emergencies when “abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve [the emergency] condition.” The guidance went…