This JAMA Forum discusses the complexities of health care policy in the US, unique aspects of health care costs, and the challenges associated with achieving affordable health care for everyone.

Speaking of leaving, more South Dakotans are checking out permanently by gun: The number of South Dakotans who took their own lives with a firearm rose to 116 last year, and the proportion of South…

The Maldives has become the first country in the world to ban tobacco use for an entire generation, after a new law took effect.

Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states

A Harvard dean whose work was cited as justification for curtailing Tylenol use provided what a judge called 'unreliable' expert testimony against the drug’s maker

Why America's future doctors are avoiding abortion-ban states.

Eight years after surviving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, the author urges Congress to pass legislation to help fund training for more doctors.

The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

The National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of research grants, an internal email shows

Trump administration officials applauded the insurance industry for its willingness to change, but also acknowledged limitations of the agreement.

A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

The uninsured in the U.S. dropped by about 40% since the passage of the ACA; projected effects of legislation would raise uninsured 60%, nearly wiping out all the gains since the ACA was implemented

'Big, beautiful bill' would result in 10.9 million people losing health insurance, primarily Medicaid.

The U.S. can’t afford to lose more doctors. Expanding international students’ access to American medical schools is a good place to start.

Cuts to research and attacks on universities are handing global leadership to China.

The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.

Scrolling through Trump’s latest foray into history-washing.

The “stop-work order” from the National Institutes of Health arrived hours after the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force said Monday night it would freeze more than $2 billion of funding.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and other officials are weighing a public competition intended to jump-start research or to pursue a more traditional approach of awarding grants.

This edition of AcademyHealth's Situation Report provides a comprehensive overview of the significant challenges arising from the HHS reorganization, Medicaid funding debates, and NIH grant disruptions,...

Veteran health care reporter Julie Rovner breaks down the massive cuts and reorganization at HHS and answers listeners’ questions about what to expect next.

A coalition of state attorneys general sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initi

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The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.