UnitedHealth Group surprised investors with what its CEO said was an 'unusual and unacceptable' quarterly earnings miss, and it lowered its outlook for the full year due to higher-than-expected medical costs, sparking a more than 20% selloff in shares that reverberated across the sector. The company's first earnings miss since 2008 and accompanying bleak forecast sent investors to the exits, as they were hoping the U.S. insurer would maintain its profit outlook on expectations that demand for medical services would be similar to 2024.
Federal officials are circulating a draft budget proposal that would make dramatic additional cuts to federal health programs and serve as a roadmap for more mass firings. Though it's preliminary, the document gives an indication of the Trump administration’s priorities as it prepares its 2026 fiscal year budget proposal to Congress. The document indicates plans to deepen job and funding reductions across much of the federal government.
With access to primary care on the decline, training programs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are building a model to prepare physician leaders who can make a difference.
For a decade and a half, Americans have been guaranteed that no matter their health insurer, certain preventive care like cancer screenings are free of charge. That's because an ACA provision has required insurers to fully cover services given an A or B recommendation by an expert task force. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to this statute in the case of Kennedy v. BraidwoodManagement. Either way the court decides, legal and medical experts told STAT, the ruling could have profound ramifications for the future of preventive healthcare in the United States.
The CDC is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding to ongoing measles outbreaks, even as a large number of cases are not being reported, a senior agency scientist said Tuesday. More than 700 measles infections have been reported nationwide, making 2025 the second-worst year on record in decades. There are 561 confirmed cases in Texas alone since late January, according to the most recent statistics.
David Walt, a Harvard University medial professor, argued the Trump administration's cut to the university's funding is going to "cost lives." Walt, a laureate professor working on early diagnosis of ALS, joined CNN Wednesday as the legal battle between Harvard and the Trump administration continues and more than $2.2 billion in funding was cut from the school.