The Department of Health and Human Services can enforce a new national policy governing the allocation of donated livers to transplant patients while a lawsuit challenging the policy is pending in federal court, a federal court judge in Georgia ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced Tuesday a plan that offers free access to PrEP, the daily pill regimen that prevents HIV infection among users who have not yet contracted the disease.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to let medical workers refuse services, including abortions, based on their religious beliefs and moral objections.
Read moreHealth and Human Services touted two Medicare law changes proposed Wednesday by the Trump administration, saying they will enable specialty clinicians to share data with a patient’s primary care physician, coordinating better care.
Read moreLawyers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday of the consequences of a federal judge’s decision to throw out the department’s budget-neutral approach to designing risk adjustment.
Read moreHouse Democrats on Thursday renewed pressure to obtain critical records on the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance family separation policy in light of a watchdog report detailing psychological trauma children experienced at facilities throughout the United States.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion pledge to help states fight the opioid crisis earned cautious celebration Wednesday from groups on the epidemic’s front lines.
Read moreAn 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday over a proposed policy change that would affect how patients on the liver-transplant waiting list would receive their new, life-saving organs.
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Americans will soon be able to import lower-cost prescription drugs from foreign countries like Canada as part of plan unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Read moreHouse Democrats on Wednesday pushed for the shutdown of emergency facilities sheltering unaccompanied minors who crossed over the Mexico border, calling them for-profit prisons that warehouse children.
Read moreThe Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that they no longer can refer women for abortions.
Read moreAt federal agency and court levels, the resources America makes available to couples dealing with unwanted pregnancies suffered twin setbacks heading into the weekend.
Read moreCurbing the Trump administration’s breach of legislative authority, a federal judge blocked a rule that would have made drugmakers reveal medication pricing in television ads.
Read moreStriking down the abortion ban 2-1, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot force underage immigrants to carry their pregnancies to term.
Read moreNursing facilities in the U.S. did not report thousands of cases of potential neglect and abuse of elderly Medicare recipients, the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general said in an audit released Wednesday.
Read morePlanned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate federal lawsuits Tuesday to block a rule that would let medical providers refuse or even withhold information about treatment based on so-called “conscience-based” objections.
Read moreIn violation of a long-standing federal court settlement, the Trump administration government has stopped paying for legal services and English-language courses at jails for immigrant children around the country, saying budget cuts make it necessary.
Read moreGovernment scientists will no longer conduct medical research using human fetal tissue, following a policy shift announced Wednesday by the Trump administration.
Read moreA federal judge granted Baltimore an injunction preventing Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar from enacting a new rule “that would amend federal regulations with respect to the funding of family planning services.”
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