“New York City’s syndromic surveillance system, which collects information about every patient who visits an emergency room, reported 9,857 visits for “influenza-like illness” last week. That was higher than in the worst weeks of the 2017-18 or 2024-25 flu seasons, both ranked as “high severity”

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New Medicare prior authorization has doctors on edge. www.axios.com/2025/12/23/m...

FDA approves first oral GLP-1 drug for weight loss. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/f...

How vaccine makers could be exposed to lawsuits if the U.S. changes the childhood vaccine schedule. www.axios.com/2025/12/22/c...

Democrats reignite "Medicare for All" debate in Senate primaries. www.axios.com/2025/12/19/m...

Nine more drugmakers meet Trump on pricing plans. www.axios.com/2025/12/19/t...

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Eli Lilly finds a new lane with its daily obesity pill. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Trump unveils his marijuana reclassification plan. Here's what's next. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Trump admin moves to cut off hospitals' Medicare, Medicaid payments over trans care. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Obamacare markets prepare for possible chaos as subsidy renewal gets punted. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/o...

Centrists see some hope for a January ACA deal after yesterday’s upheaval. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/s...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries adhered to a single principle to defeat Speaker Mike Johnson on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits: Don't give an inch to Republican moderates looking for an escape hatch.

House passes GOP health bill without subsidies, all but assuring enhanced Obamacare tax credits will expire at year's end. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/h...

House Republicans help Dems defy speaker in a stunning Obamacare revolt. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/m...

CDC formally drops universal hepatitis B shot recommendation for newborns. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/h...

"It's idiotic": House moderates fume at speaker over inaction on Obamacare, threaten to cut deal with Democrats. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/m...

Normally, FDA approval for drugs is obtained after years of large-scale testing. But President Trump’s pledge to fast-track leucovorin for autism treatment, bypassing that process, has left many doctors on the front lines divided.

Measles response puts personal choice ahead of orders. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/m...

House moderates bypass speaker on ACA subsidies. The GOP's health care problem gets more complicated. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

House Democrats face choice on Obamacare compromises. www.axios.com/2025/12/15/o...

Trump advisers strafe Hawley over new anti-abortion group. www.axios.com/2025/12/15/t...

States take the lead policing AI in health care. www.axios.com/2025/12/13/s...

House Republicans lay out plans for health votes next week. www.axios.com/2025/12/12/h...

Trump leans toward reclassifying marijuana. www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...

NEW: Senate rejects rival Obamacare bills, likely dooming enhanced ACA subsidies. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/s...

Infighting erupts over RFK impeachment as more Democrats go rogue. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/i...

Calls to pull COVID vaccines get louder as group Kennedy founded petitions FDA. www.axios.com/2025/12/11/k...

SNAP junk food ban expands to six more states. www.axios.com/2025/12/10/s...

House Republicans are moving ahead with plans for health care votes next week, but not on an Affordable Care Act fix. www.axios.com/2025/12/10/m...

Here are Rep. Haley Stevens’ articles of impeachment against RFK Jr., accusing him of “abuse of authority snd undermining the public health” HHS spox calls it “partisan theatrics designed to elevate standing in a failing, third-rate Senate bid.” www.axios.com/2025/12/10/r...

Senate prepares for dueling high-stakes health care votes. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

GOP still slow to settle on an alternative to an Obamacare subsidy extension. www.axios.com/2025/12/09/r...

Curbs on China biotech included in must-pass defense bill. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

SCOOP: Senate Republican chairs circulate health plan as ACA subsidies hang in the balance

Public’s vaccine divide helps Trump overturn longstanding policies. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/t...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are both considering votes on GOP health care priorities next week — if they can figure out what those priorities are. www.axios.com/2025/12/05/r...

New: Trump orders overhaul of U.S. vaccine schedule. www.axios.com/2025/12/06/t...

RFK's vaccine advisors make it official and vote 8-3 to drop the universal recommendation infants get hepatitis B vaccine at birth. www.axios.com/2025/12/05/c...

CDC panel postpones vote on changing recommendation for hepatitis vaccine. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/r...

CDC panel postpones vote on changing recommendation for hepatitis vaccine. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/r...

Leading anti-vaccine lawyer to brief CDC advisory panel on childhood vaccines. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/r...

FDA reaches “tipping point” after high-level departures. www.axios.com/2025/12/04/f...

Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/48Ova76

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇

Scoop: RFK Jr. gets personally involved in FDA personnel drama. www.axios.com/2025/12/03/r...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5

Trump admin formally kills off nursing home staffing rules. www.axios.com/newsletters/...

FDA upheaval continues as top drug regulator exits. www.axios.com/newsletters/...