Health & Veritas The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues making headlines, including public attitudes toward the Medicaid cuts in the budget bill making its way through Congress, a one-time gene therapy that could cure high cholesterol, “ambient” AI in the exam room, and the replacement of the the CDC’s entire vaccine advisory board.
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Remembering Atul Butte
“Atul Butte, a biomedical and bioinformatics pioneer, dies at 55”
“Remembering Atul Butte, MD, PhD”
The Budget Bill
H.R.1—One Big Beautiful Bill Act
“KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views of the One Big Beautiful Bill”
CBO: Dynamic Estimate of H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act
“Protesters disrupt town-hall healthcare talks”
Vinay Prasad
“Vinay Prasad named chief medical and science officer at FDA”
“Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program”
Medicaid Cuts
“Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision”
“The Senate Wants Billions More in Medicaid Cuts, Pinching States and Infuriating Hospitals”
“5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements”
“Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.”
“Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage Program: The First Year in Review”
“Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades”
Gene Therapy to Prevent Heart Disease
Verve Therapeutics: Sekar Kathiresan, M.D.
“Lilly to buy gene-editing partner Verve for up to $1.3 billion in cardiac care push”
“Viral Vector-Based Gene Therapy”
“mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases”
“Second patient death reported with gene therapy for muscular dystrophy”
Anti-Vaxxers at the CDC
“Scoop: CDC has no Acting Director, sources confirm.”
Video: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the polio vaccine
“This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader”
“Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts”
“RFK Jr. replaced everyone on the CDC's vaccine panel. Here's why that matters”
“ACIP, CDC, and Insurance Coverage of Vaccines in the United States”
Ambient AI
“Ambient AI Is Having Its ‘Moment’ In Healthcare”
“This technology is becoming beloved by doctors and patients alike”
“Physician Perspectives on Ambient AI Scribes”
“Microsoft unveils new voice-activated AI assistant for doctors”
“Kaiser Permanente rolls out Abridge's gen AI clinical tech across 40-hospital system”
“Andreessen Horowitz in Deal Talks Valuing Abridge AI at $5.3 Billion”