Drugmakers are responding to President Donald Trump’s call to launch direct-to-consumer sales, sparking questions about how the strategy could upend the industry’s traditional players—or help preserve the status quo. W/ Lauren Clason news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

college football returns this week

A will? I don't even have a way

Rocktown High grad Tyler Miller makes his first appearance for JMU soccer in the 82nd minute with the Dukes trailing Fordham 1-0.

ICYMI: Lawyers at two top firms concealed information that could have sidetracked a $500 million biotech deal, according to claims in an SEC whistleblower complaint news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/pau…

NEW: The Trump administration can withhold Medicaid reimbursements to a major family care provider in Maine under a federal judge’s order Monday denying a request to pause an embattled provision in congressional Republicans’ tax law. More here Bloomberg Law: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

SCOOP with Nyah Phengsitthy and Rachel Cohrs Zhang : HHS started to cut off collective bargaining rights for staff on Monday, latest escalation in the Trump admin’s effort to strip federal workers of union rights. Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Trump administration is ordering states across the US to eliminate what it calls “gender ideology content” from sex education materials within the next two months. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

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reminder that there’s almost always a local news angle

New group "IRA Watchdog" is seeking to stop the expansion of Medicare drug price negotiations, lobbying against a Biden-era program that is gaining momentum under the Trump administration. Deep dive on the group w/ Kate Ackley Zeller news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Scoop - SUSAN MONAREZ, nation’s newly installed CDC director, is being ousted, people familiar tell Lena Sun Lauren Weber + me washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08…

Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people. Secretary Kennedy has full confidence in his team at CDC who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious

New: White House confirms it has terminated CDC Director Susan Monarez after she declined to resign. “As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” White House spokesperson Kush

Quite a statement from the head of the Center for Infectious and Respiratory Diseases who resigned from the CDC today. Many staff have long admired Demetre Daskalakis, he used to help lead the White House response to Mpox in 2022

Leaders across various states are planning to shift from their reliance on federal immunization recommendations for this fall’s respiratory virus season. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Scoop - the White House is tapping JIM O'NEILL to serve as acting head of CDC O'Neill has been serving as RFK Jr's deputy secretary. He has been vocally supportive of vaccines in the past, but also criticized Biden covid vax response. More at The Post: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Drugmaker Chiesi USA, Inc. failed to convince a federal judge that the Medicaid agency acted unlawfully when it determined what “new formulation” drugs are under its rebate program. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

UnitedHealth Ongoing Criminal Probe Is Broader Than Medicare news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-a…

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC isn’t sufficiently aligned with President Donald Trump’s agenda and it needs an overhaul, a day after the White House fired the director following an intense clash over vaccines. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…