New White House rule would make weight loss drugs available for people on Medicare and Medicaid

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. If confirmed, the agency that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health would be run by a vaccine-skeptic who has repeatedly pledged to overhaul…

BBC Mandi Masters, a community midwife, was hospitalised with Covid in the pandemic. The public inquiry into the pandemic will start 10 weeks of hearings on Monday looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider NHS. Covid patients have been admitted to hospital more than a million times in the UK since…

Wolverine Packing Co., a meat distributor based in Detroit, is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef products for potential E. coli contamination. The products were shipped to restaurants across the country. An estimated 15 people in Minnesota reported falling ill, with “onset dates ranging from November 2, 2024, to November…

Getty Images Even as Covid hit, the government and its health officials were bullish in their confidence about their ability to cope. Dr Jenny Harries, then the deputy chief medical officer for England, hailed the UK as an “international exemplar” in its preparedness at one of the early TV press conferences. She was not the…

The future of Medicare, America’s sweeping health insurance program for older adults, continues to come up on the campaign trail from both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump during this final stretch leading up to the 2024 presidential election. This year’s voting comes at a time when the 67.5 million Americans enrolled…

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a 56-year-old physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, will work in cooperation with…