Biden administration

The Bureau of Global Health, Security and Diplomacy, housed in the State Department, will plan for the next pandemic. We interviewed its director, virologist and global health leader John Nkengasong.

Paperwork problems and procedural issues are the driving force behind a surge of people losing Medicaid health care coverage in states like Florida.

The administration is seeking ideas from the public and private sectors to explore how to dramatically improve cancer outcomes by developing better surgical interventions to treat the disease.

The regulations would require insurers to study whether their customers have equal access to medical and mental health benefits and to take remedial action, if necessary.

The numbers issued by a SBA inspector general are much greater than previous projections and underscore how vulnerable the Paycheck Protection and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs.

A Tampa-based federal judge in April 2022 halted a mandate that people wear masks on planes, trains and buses. The appellate panel cited the end to the public health emergency.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 54, described her time at the agency as intense, but stopped short of saying she was burned out.

President Biden's pick for the next director of the CDC is Dr. Mandy Cohen, an internal medicine physician with experience in state and federal government.

The White House said Jha will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the university’s school of public health before joining the White House as its COVID-19 coordinator in April 2022.

A federal appeals court issued an “administrative stay” of a ruling that would have eliminated the requirement that most insurers cover preventive care such as vaccines and cancer screenings.