NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 2026 — When COVID-19 vaccines proved that mRNA technology could be deployed at mass scale in under a year, cancer researchers saw something beyond pandemic response. They saw a platform. The same biological machinery that instructed…
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2026 — What Medicaid Work Requirements Actually Require The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025, introduced work requirements for adults in the ACA Medicaid expansion group — specifically, adults without dependent…
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2026 — Why Are Medicare Advantage Plans Cutting Benefits Right Now? Medicare Advantage — the private-insurance alternative to original Medicare that now covers more than 34 million Americans, or 54% of all Medicare-eligible adults — spent the…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 22, 2026 — GLP-1 drugs changed medicine. That is not hyperbole. Since semaglutide — sold as Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss — reached mass prescription levels, the conversation around obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease has…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 18, 2026 — Medicare covers more than 67 million Americans. For most of them, it is the most important financial and healthcare decision they make in retirement — and the one they understand least. In 2026, the changes…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 17, 2026 — Heart disease kills more Americans than any other condition — more than all cancers combined. More than 800,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease each year. And according to cardiologists who helped write the sweeping new…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 16, 2026 — Type 2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease in America. It is also one of the most preventable — and one of the most undertreated. Roughly 98 million American adults have prediabetes, the precursor…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — For decades, Medicare was legally prohibited from doing what every other major health insurance system in the developed world does as a matter of routine: negotiate directly with drug companies to bring prices down. That…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 2026 — The largest overhaul of America’s government health programs in a generation is now fully underway, and the consequences are landing directly on the wallets and medical records of over 130 million Americans who depend on…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 12, 2026 — For decades, doctors told aging Americans there was little they could do to prevent dementia beyond eating well and staying active. A landmark new study has changed that conversation — permanently. A 20-year follow-up of…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 8, 2026 — Key Takeaways More than 92% of Americans have some form of health insurance — but a 2025 Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that nearly half could not correctly define the term “deductible,” and more than…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 5, 2026 — Key Takeaways More than 67 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare. Yet surveys consistently find that the majority of beneficiaries cannot accurately explain what their plan covers — or explain the difference between Part A…