The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would halt federal funding, at least temporarily, for a kind of research into viruses that makes the pathogens more dangerous www.wsj.com/health/trump... w @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social

Double coverage: Medicare pays insurers billions a year to cover veterans who instead get treated at the VA. “I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years.” wsj.com/health/healt...

Scientists uncovered an exquisitely preserved saber-toothed cub with surprisingly soft fur. @AylinWoodward reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/biol...

Is RFK Jr moderating his positions on vaccines and other health and food issues? A look at President-elect Trump’s choice to run Health and Human Services.

America’s drug crisis has many survivors, and the most senior are entering old age. Their struggles show how the damage wrought by addiction lingers long after the death toll drops www.wsj.com/us-news/a-ge...

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A costly symptom of our complicated drug reimbursement system: People in the same Medicare drug plan face wildly different prices for the same drug

The White House proposed a new rule that would allow obese people on Medicare and Medicaid to get coverage for popular weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound www.wsj.com/health/healt...

A former legal intern who was also a family babysitter says that Kennedy touched her inappropriately more than two decades ago and that she is willing to testify before the Senate.

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Medicare pays prices that vary by tens of thousands of dollars a month for the same drug. Take generic versions of prostate cancer treatment Zytiga. They ring in at around $815 a month in northern Michigan, while jumping to $3,356 in a county along Lake Michigan. www.wsj.com/health/healt...