Meg Tirrell
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Scoop: Lowering pharmaceutical prices and a new most favored nation deal is topic of Trump's 5 pm Oval announcement today, sources tell me. @CBSNews
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So excited to get to call @owermohle a colleague! Welcome!
I'm sad to soon be leaving STAT and all my great colleagues, but am excited to join CNN! I'll continue covering the federal health agencies and all things health care in D.C., so continue reaching out.
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New from @megtirrell @cnn Once weekly semaglutide and alcohol use disorder-a 9 week trial
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For years, people taking Ozempic or other drugs in the same class for diabetes and weight loss have noticed the medicines don’t just curb their desire to eat; for some, they also lead them to drink...
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RFK Jr's @SenFinance confirmation hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 29 Senate HELP committee expects to schedule their hearing for RFK Jr. for the next day, a committee spokesman tells us
HEARING: Chairman @MikeCrapo announces HHS Secretary nomination hearing:
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Trump Administration pauses external communications from health agencies including FDA, CDC, NIH - first reported by @washingtonpost. Sources told @ReporterGoodman & me they weren’t told why or for how long
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Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health...
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Trump issues executive order to withdraw U.S. from the World Health Organization:
whitehouse.gov
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
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Biden issues pardon to Dr Fauci, Gen Mark Milley & members of Congress on Jan 6 committee. “These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions.”
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President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his own family, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield...
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Moderna gets $590M in HHS funding for development of vaccine candidates for pandemic flu, including H5N1 bird flu:
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The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.
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As expected, Ozempic & Wegovy join Medicare’s list of 15 drugs next to face price negotiations. New price would take effect in 2027:
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Ozempic and Wegovy, the blockbuster but costly GLP-1 drugs often used for weight loss, are among the 15 medications that will be subject to the next round of Medicare price negotiations, the Biden...
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The movie Major League played an oddly large role in my childhood. Bob Uecker’s voice will forever be in my head (making me laugh)
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Bob Uecker, the legendary voice of the Milwaukee Brewers who was nicknamed “Mr. Baseball,” has died aged 90, the team announced on Thursday.
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A CDC spokesperson pushed back on comments Dr. Deborah Birx made about the US testing strategy for H5N1 bird flu Friday, calling them "out of date, misleading and inaccurate.”
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The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health...
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RFK Jr, who’s pledged to make a significant dent in chronic diseases including diabetes in the U.S. within 2 years, says Ozempic is sold to Americans because “we’re so stupid and so addicted to drugs”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to tackle high rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services....
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Trump confirms on Truth Social he's chosen RFK Jr for HHS secretary
Trump is on the verge of announcing RFK Jr. for HHS secretary, @kaitlancollins @KristenhCNN report
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Trump is on the verge of announcing RFK Jr. for HHS secretary, @kaitlancollins @KristenhCNN report
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President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks...
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.@craigmelvin is one of the nicest people I’ve met in TV. So happy to see this announcement!
nytimes.com
By selecting Mr. Melvin, a familiar face on the show, network executives chose to go the steadiest route possible.
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RFK Jr: “President Trump has promised me … control of the public health agencies” - “HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA.” Public health experts say what alarms them most is what RFK isn’t talking about:
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“I’m going to let him go wild on health,” former President Trump promised Sunday at his rally at Madison Square Garden. “I’m going to get him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the...
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Millions of Medicare beneficiaries could benefit from more help with home care. Here’s what both presidential candidates have put forward about the issue:
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When Nobel winner @geoffreyhinton warned last week about risks of AI, he joined a series of laureates who highlighted potential dangers of their own work. Here are other times Nobel winners have made similar warnings:
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When computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his work on machine learning, he immediately issued a warning about the power of the technology that his research...
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Florida’s health dept is warning residents to take precautions around floodwaters as #Milton hits - in part to avoid the risk of infection with Vibrio bacteria. It caused 11 deaths after Hurricane Ian in 2022, of about 150 total associated with the storm:
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