The federal government, health care providers, nonprofits, academics and others are embracing the concept that you can be healthier or sicker depending on what you eat.
It's easy to get drawn in by flashy uses of AI in healthcare. It's much harder to figure out which ones are actually good ideas and which ones just sound cool.
Thirty-five years after setting its sights on San Marcos, Scripps Health announced Monday that it will soon break ground on a medical campus within walking distance of a competitor, Kaiser Permanente San Marcos Medical Center. The site, which has already been graded and had underground utilities installed, would include a 200- to 250-bed full-service hospital and a 150,000- to 200,000-square-foot ambulatory care building. The project, which still needs permits from the City of San Marcos, would start with the ambulatory building. The hospital is not expected to open until roughly 2031. The project is estimated to cost about $1.2 billion.
Health policy experts warn that any cuts to Medicaid are likely to cause more trouble for rural hospitals than urban ones. That's due in part because rural residents are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid.
Thousands of employees returned to the FDA's headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies. The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration's return-to-office mandate, part of a flurry of actions — including firings and buyouts — intended to radically shrink the federal workforce. Monday was the first day that all rank-and-file FDA staffers were required to report to offices, including the agency's 130-acre campus just outside Washington.
HHS has removed a former surgeon general's warning declaring gun violence a public health crisis to comply with the president's executive order to protect Second Amendment rights, according to a White House official. Giffords, the gun violence prevention group founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, announced on Monday that former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's advisory recognizing gun violence as a public health crisis was wiped from HHS' website.