All News - Latest Health News and Updates | Watchdoq

Public Health Groups Decry HHS Firings, Grant Cuts

(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration's abrupt slashing of billions in state, city, and county public health funds will dramatically reduce the ability to collect disease surveillance data to w

Read More

Supreme Court Appears Divided Over Whether States Can End Planned Parenthood Funding

(MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a case that comes amid a wider push from abortion

Read More

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

Read More

A letter from the executive editor: The dramatic reshaping of health and medicine in the U.S.

The Trump administration and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are ushering in an extraordinary reshaping of health and medicine, STAT executive editor @rickberke writes in a letter to readers.

Read More

Inside the C.D.C., a Final ‘Love Letter’ Before Mass Layoffs

The agency’s injury center was among the departments that were largely gutted in Tuesday’s wave of dismissals. Read a staff member’s letter to colleagues while they awaited their fates.

Read More

NIH sued over ‘ideological purge’ of DEI, Covid and vaccine research

Agency canceled billions in grants in move that went beyond Trump’s orders targeting diversity, suit allegesA group of public health experts and major labor organizations are suing the National Inst

Read More

Who Is RFK Jr.'s Special Adviser Calley Means?

(MedPage Today) -- Calley Means and Casey Means, MD, have leveraged their entrepreneurial and medical backgrounds to launch themselves into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Read More

AI Chatbot Helps Mental Health; Neuroplastogen for PTSD: Magic Mushroom Dispensaries

(MedPage Today) -- A fully generative artificial intelligence (AI) therapy chatbot was effective for reducing mental health symptoms, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders in an 8-week

Read More

STAT+: Trump administration begins mass cuts of federal health policy researchers

ASPE and AHRQ are losing key research staff as part of the HHS cuts Tuesday. Current and former employees worry vital data-driven research will suffer.

Read More

John Oliver faces defamation lawsuit from US healthcare executive

Dr Brian Morley claims Last Week Tonight host and show took his words out of context in a 2024 episode on MedicaidA US healthcare executive has sued John Oliver for defamation following a Last Week To

Read More
Health News