22 May, 2026

Medicare is in desperate need of DOGE deregulation

Lost amid the turmoil of DOGE’s federal workforce cuts was a mid-February executive order directing DOGE to repeal regulations that impede innovation, are overly burdensome, or not clearly authorized by statute. Now it appears that DOGE and the Trump administration are taking action on that order. The administration has even created a website, regulations.gov, where […]

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Women’s Health Initiative to receive NIH funding after all

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. On Monday, the groundbreaking Women’s Health Initiative announced that the federal contracts funding the study’s 40 regional centers would end with the fiscal year. But on Thursday a federal official said the Department of Health and Human Services was reversing […]

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Bristol’s Cobenfy disappoints as supplemental antipsychotic drug

A landmark new treatment for schizophrenia didn’t provide additional benefits to patients when given on top of standard-of-care therapy, Bristol Myers Squibb announced Tuesday. The drug, Cobenfy, was approved last year based on data from three randomized studies comparing the drug to placebo. It was the first new mechanism-of-action approved for schizophrenia in decades. Doctors […]

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