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Senate Confirms Dr. Oz to Lead CMS

(MedPage Today) -- By a vote of 53-45, the Senate confirmed Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, a cardiothoracic surgeon and TV personality, as the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servi

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Senate confirms Oz as head of agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid

The Senate Thursday confirmed Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency within HHS.

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Kennedy Remains Quiet on 10,000 Jobs Lost at HHS

(MedPage Today) -- Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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CDC Firings 'Not a Joke'; Former FDA Head Sounds the Alarm; Resident's Paycheck

(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. "It's not a joke.

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STAT+: A running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency

Here is a running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency recently.

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Cuts, ousters and drama at the FDA

On The Readout LOUD podcast, STAT reporters talk about new FDA commissioner Marty Makary's first week amid a swirl of layoffs and forced ousters at the agency.

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HHS cuts leave future of mental health, substance use hotlines uncertain

In a meeting about HHS layoffs, employees asked about projects like the National Quit Line and Maternal Mental Health Hotline. Managers didn’t know.

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Liver Cleansing 'Imposters'; Oral Drug Succeeds in UC; New Autoimmune Hepatitis Recs

(MedPage Today) -- With annual revenue approaching $40 million, an analysis in the American Journal of Gastroenterology revealed the thriving online marketplace for "imposters" that claim to cleanse

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FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety

Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': American Health Gets a Pink Slip

The Department of Health and Human Services underwent an unprecedented purge this week, as thousands of employees from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and P

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