• The White House wants to rename HHS to 'HPW.' (But the proposed revamp goes beyond the name.)

  June 22, 2018
  

  A plan released yesterday by the White House Office of Management and Budget would reorganize, restructure, and rename various federal agencies, including HHS and FDA.

• Why some are hopeful—and others skeptical—about Gawande at Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan

  June 22, 2018
  

  Since news broke that Atul Gawande will lead the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase health care venture, stakeholders have offered predictions about how Gawande will approach the job—with some applauding the pick and others questioning whether the respected surgeon and thought leader has the business acumen the job might demand.

• Could the herpes virus be linked to Alzheimer's? New study suggests it might be.

  June 22, 2018
  

  Joel Dudley, a senior author on the study and an associate professor of genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said the findings suggest that two herpes "viruses are probably significant players in driving the immune system in Alzheimer's" disease.

• Google's latest ambition: Predicting when patients will die

  June 22, 2018
  

  Google's new artificial intelligence system can predict a range of potential patient outcomes, including when a patient might die.

• Diagnosed with ALS, this researcher continues his work to cure the disease

  June 22, 2018
  

  Rahul Desikan was one of the foremost researchers on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) when he was diagnosed with the disease—and now, unable to speak, walk, and hardly able to move, Desikan is working harder than ever to save others from the disease.

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• Trump might stop cost-sharing reduction payments. What would that mean?

  August 7, 2017
  

  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to halt payments that reimburse insurers for reducing out-of-pocket costs for low-income enrollees on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. Here's what you need to know about the payments and what could happen if Trump halts them.

• Amid uncertainty on health care reform, three insurers announce exchange exits

  August 4, 2017
  

  The insurers say uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction payments are a reason for their exits from exchange markets in California, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.

• Insurers attribute proposed 2018 premium increases to ACA uncertainty, KFF finds

  August 10, 2017
  

  Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says, "In most of the country, the [individual health insurance] market would be stable if not for significant uncertainty about what the ...Trump administration will do."

• US News names 152 'Best Hospitals'

  August 8, 2017
  

  Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" for the second year in a row.

• ACA repeal has been declared 'dead' countless times. What would really mean it's failed?

  August 1, 2017
  

  The conventional wisdom is that under Senate rules, the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act will be officially "dead" if it doesn't pass by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. But a former Senate parliamentarian tells American Health Line that things aren't so simple.

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