D.C. Diagnosis: Prasad returns to FDA, CDC attacked

D.C. Diagnosis: Prasad returns to FDA, CDC attacked

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Normally I keep the intro to this newsletter light-hearted. But today I feel compelled to acknowledge the terror that CDC employees felt Friday when…

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RFK Jr. could remake preventive services task force ‘imminently’| STAT

RFK Jr. could remake preventive services task force ‘imminently’| STAT

WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could “imminently” overhaul a key federal advisory panel that recommends which preventive services insurers must pay for, according to a person familiar with the plans.  The person said that federal health officials are actively vetting new members for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. David Mansdoerfer, an…

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