BREAKING: Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

I can’t believe I used the wrong link! Here’s the story www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/h...

I interviewed people who are affected by the loss of enhanced subsidies for 2026. Many are faced with tough decisions about what to do. Here’s the story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

Millions of Americans are confronting the highest health insurance costs in years. @reedabelson.bsky.social son explains why. Obamacare subsidies expire in 3 weeks. The clock is ticking on Capitol Hill. Congress may push the issue off until next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/h...

SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

Next year's A.C.A. health prices are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend subsidies. Via @reedabelson.bsky.social and @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

The A.I. companies they contract to review pre-authorizations will have a strong incentive to deny care. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections. My story with @reedabelson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

As Aatish Taseer and his husband built a life together in New York, their anchor was Zinc, an 85-pound shepherd-lab mix. The last lesson he taught them was about loss and renewal. 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4mGA766

A look at the broad challenges facing UnitedHealth — and the U.S. health system www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/h...

Children with complex medical needs and their families were on Capitol Hill this week lobbying senators against Medicaid cuts. From Megan Mineiro and @sangerkatz.bsky.social:

My latest: Kennedy said he has to go to Antigua to get stem cells for his vocal condition. He'd like such treatments to come to the U.S., despite the scams and bad outcomes they might bring. (why? he basically says pharma is just as bad) GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...

“In many ways, it’s sort of repeal by paper cut." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

Here's a complete list of *everything* in the GOP megabill, thanks to heroic efforts from @aliciaparlap.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social and Josh Katz. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Medicaid work requirement in the House bill is a lot stricter than work requirements in previous legislation. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... with Sarah Kliff

Valerie, the miniature dachshund, disappeared in 2023, slipping out of her pen and into the bush on Australia’s Kangaroo Island. For the next 529 days, she eluded capture. Now, she is “safe and sound” and is being re-acclimated to domestic life in preparation for a reunion with her owners.

A tiny agency that supports programs like Meals on Wheels and Centers for Independent Living is being dismantled by the Trump administration— and concerns are increasing over the future funding of these initiatives. Here’s my story www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...

A bankruptcy judge in Dallas on Tuesday approved the closures of Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland and Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park.

Even as President Trump— with Musk and DOGE— says he’s rooting out fraud, he’s backing a skin substitute, basically an expensive bandaid, that is costing Medicare billions of dollars. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h... A must read by @bykatiethomas.bsky.social @sarahkliff

...when public health works it's invisible...

A recession with job losses, combined with Medicaid cuts, combined with an end to enhanced ACA premium aid, would be quite a triple whammy for health coverage.

HHS doctors, scientists and tobacco control staff, rare disease experts, cancer drug wizards -- all fired today or leaving in recent weeks. Yet. 🚨 At HHS, staff make up less than one percent of the overall agency budget. 🚨 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

One way to get rid of senior health officials: reassign them to the Indian Health Service territories, like Alaska. This is how the Trump administration is forcing out top leaders at NIH, CDC, FDA and other health agencies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Have any of these people read a single story from the healthcare.gov days? “How hard is it to build a website?” some idiots asked.

Yesterday: $12 billion in public health spending to states cut: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h... Today: 10,000 HHS Staff from CDC, FDA etc to be cut: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u... We'll be documenting what it means at @nytimes.com. Don't be strangers. My Signal is 916.202.0886. Be well.

Amid 20,000 HHS jobs lost, here's one new hire: A fixture of the anti-vaccine movement, brought in to study the link b/t vaccines and autism. Mr. Kennedy has been citing him since '05. w @sherylnyt.bsky.social & Emily Baumgartner GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. nyti.ms/43Xz77q

As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

“The violence had rhythm, like a theater of fear.” Hard to imagine a more compelling piece of journalism than this eyewitness account of the Venezuelans thrust into a Salvadoran hellhole prison. And bravo to photojournalist Philip Holsinger/TIME Magazine. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Aside from the illegal, naked power grab, with only 2 commissioners the FTC doesn’t have a quorum and the agency can’t take action.

Lovely story www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

One simple way to think about federal cuts to Medicaid is as cuts to state budgets. That reality has consequences for policy--and politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

Dr. Oz will have his senate nomination hearing for CMS administrator Friday, March 14 at 10am, Senate Finance Committee says: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

SCOOP: Barely two weeks after they were fired, dozens of young scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were reinstated on Tuesday — at least temporarily. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country. nyti.ms/4ikHi1Q

With the next FDA vaccine meeting cancelled, concerns are rising about whether flu vaccine will be ready on time for next year. w/ @sherylnyt.bsky.social The stakes are high: 86 kids and 19,000 adults died so far this flu season. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Wondering what's in the budget bill that just passed? @aliciaparlap.bsky.social and I have a breakdown, with helpful charts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Workers started getting their jobs reinstated about four hours after our Friday story detailing the work some of the FDA medical device experts. The work includes reviewing reports of hospitalizations & death re: people who use complex diabetes-control devices. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

Just Posted: Dr. Mehmet Oz: How His Millions Collide With Medicare, w @reedabelson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

From Susanne Craig and me: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

More than any city outside of DC, Atlanta -- home of the CDC -- has been hit by Trump's firings. The city is the world's global health capital, and it is under siege. I connected my colleague Alan Blinder with some folks down there. Here is his report: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

I'd like to hear from current and former employees at USDA-APHIS (esp PPQ & VS) and USDA-ARS. Happy to keep your identity confidential or even just talk off the record, if that's what you'd prefer. You can reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at emilyanthes.41

On the "wall of receipts" it published yesterday, DOGE claimed $8 billion of savings on one contract. It was actually an $8 million contract. from @sangerkatz.bsky.social @aatishb.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social + Josh Katz www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

This new paper in JAMA Open has some very troubling findings about trends in mortality among young or "early" adults. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

My colleagues’ take on firings at HHS: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

A new Trump formula for NIH grants could have very broad effects. We dug into the numbers to show what it means for every university and hospital. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @aatishb.bsky.social @emmbadger.bsky.social @ethansinger.bsky.social @irineoc.bsky.social @fparis.bsky.social

Breaking -- the judge in Massachusetts granted the restraining order to stop the NIH grant funding cuts.