Peter Marks, the FDA official pressured to resign over his disagreements with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., warned in an interview that Kennedy's tenure at the HHS has been "very scary" so far. In his resignation letter, Marks said he had been "willing" to work to address Kennedy's "concerns" about vaccine transparency and safety but determined Kennedy only wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians.
More employees at NIH are expected to be laid off in the coming days, multiple federal officials say, less than a week after an initial wave of cuts gutted many offices within the health research agency. The NIH was initially supposed to lose about 1,200 scientists, support staff and other officials as a result of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s restructuring. It is unclear how many additional employees will be targeted for cuts.
Mangione maintains his innocence in the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But in a country where loathing for the for-profit healthcare industry is widespread, Thompson's murder and Mangione's coming trial have taken on broader cultural significance far beyond any normal slaying. The death penalty decision deepens that even further. Veteran defense attorneys told the Guardian that the death penalty decision also means it's all the more important for Mangione's legal team to present context as part of their legal strategy in his federal case; the defense might now even de-emphasize core questions of guilt or innocence and focus primarily on fighting the death penalty.
Ohio plans to add work requirements for some and red tape for others covered under the state's Medicaid expansion. The move is expected to take health insurance from tens, if not hundreds of thousands of the lowest income residents in the state, a group that already has poor health outcomes. Lawmakers are moving forward, even after hearing that efforts to take similar action in other states did not lead to more employment, just less access to healthcare.