Oct 13, 2026
Mayo Clinic and Thermo Fisher Scientific are forming a new company called Precure to generate population-scale molecular data that will inform the development of diagnostics, therapies, and other healthcare products.
Patrick Velliky, HaloMD's chief external affairs officer, maintains the No Surprises Act is reducing out-of-network spending despite contradictory research, while responding to criticisms of both his analysis and the company.
A group of Democratic lawmakers called for suspension of a new surveillance program quietly launched by the Trump administration to collect personal and identifiable health data from Americans who visit emergency rooms.
Bereaved parents in Sussex are being encouraged to participate in public meetings as part of a major independent review into maternity and neonatal services. The review follows cases like that of Susan Cacciacarro, whose daughter Chiara died in 2021 at nearly 37 weeks of pregnancy.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee voted unanimously to subpoena Oracle Health executives Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia after the VA's electronic health record contract costs nearly tripled from $10 billion to $27 billion.
NHS care boards and local councils are preventing disabled people from using their care funding outside the UK, effectively blocking them from international travel. Campaigners are raising concerns about these restrictions that limit the mobility and freedom of disabled individuals who rely on public care support.
Insurance broker Aon forecasts U.S. employer healthcare costs will jump 9.5% in 2027 to over $19,000 per employee on average, driven by increased medical utilization and high-priced drug spending, representing potentially the largest increase in two decades.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that insurers cannot include ghost rates or exclude bonus payments when calculating the qualifying payment amount used to determine reimbursement for out-of-network bills, a major win for healthcare providers that could increase their payments.
Médecins Sans Frontières reports that one in two children screened in displacement sites in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, are acutely malnourished, with one in four severely malnourished. The crisis has been exacerbated by an 80% drop in funding for malnutrition response programs this year, alongside ongoing drought and conflict.
Governor Moore and the Maryland Department of Health announced the first round of awards totaling $80 million for the Rural Health Transformation Program, aimed at improving healthcare access and infrastructure in rural areas of the state.
Physicians for Human Rights Israel released a report warning that the Palestinian public healthcare system in the occupied West Bank is on the brink of collapse, citing Israel's withholding of tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority as pushing hospitals and clinics to crisis point.
More than 200 members of the American Diabetes Association are calling for two leaders to resign following the controversial expulsion of five diabetes experts from the organization's meeting last month.
The World Health Organization reported on June 30 that Venezuela's healthcare system is facing significant strain following deadly twin earthquakes, with damaged hospitals, missing staff, and growing concerns about infectious disease outbreaks and food shortages among survivors.