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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Clearing up confusion on drug price rules and revisions

Association of Health Care Journalists

The topics covered in Trumps orders ranged from future pandemic preparedness to withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, who spoke with NBC News. The Burden of Prescription Drug Costs, a survey of adults ages 50 and older , AARP, August 2024.

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Kennedy’s hearings for HHS Secretary start today: What Americans need to know 

Association of Health Care Journalists

The past two weeks have been a dizzying whirlwind of executive orders, halting all health agencies public-facing communications and freezing all federal funding until a federal judges temporary restraining order paused that order. as Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy, Jr.