The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Dave Weldon to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), per a source close to Senate health committee and another source familiar.
Why it matters: The former Florida congressman was scheduled to appear before the committee this morning for a since-cancelled confirmation hearing. But his views questioning certain vaccines have garnered attention since he was nominated months ago and were sure to play a prominent role in questioning.
As teen tobacco use experiences historic declines, new evidence suggests vaping is giving kids the same level of nicotine exposure.
Why it matters: The findings could undercut arguments that vaping and e-cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes and can help smokers quit.
A federal effort to increase oversight of hospice care has been put on hold by the Trump administration, resetting efforts to root out fraud and abuse in an industry that receives more than $25 billion from Medicare annually.
Why it matters: Federal officials in recent years have ramped up efforts to identify instances in which hospice operators fraudulently bill the government or enroll patients who aren't terminally ill. But the new administration last month halted a Biden-era plan for noncompliant hospices to take corrective action or risk being kicked out of Medicare.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in the custody of the International Criminal Court following his arrest in Manila in connection with his deadly war on drugs during his presidency, the ICC confirmed Wednesday.
The big picture: The ICC Office of the Prosecutor alleged in a statement "there are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Duterte bears criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of murder" for the drugs crackdown.
The Trump Medicare innovation center plans to cancela half dozen trials to change the way health providers are paid by the end of the year as it aligns itself with the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement, multiple people familiar with the plans told Axios.
The big picture: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation leadership said they want to focus on models that are likely to meet criteria for expansion and that promote the goals of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s public health agenda, said a person with knowledge who was granted anonymity to speak freely.
AI systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying largely aren't detecting worsening health conditions, a new study found.
Why it matters: Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn't recognize about 66% of injuries that could lead to patient death in the hospital, according to the research published in Nature's Communications Medicine journal.
Retail pharmacies are embracing the idea that less is more as they grapple with online competitors, lagging reimbursement, sluggish consumer demand and employee burnout.
Driving the news: CVS Health this week confirmed it's rolling out roughly a dozen downsized stores, testing the theory that getting back to the basics of dispensing drugs will be more sustainable than selling greeting cards and cosmetics.
