Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said they will introduce legislation to require the disclosure of drug prices in consumer advertisements after they received a government report on the impact of ads on Medicare spending.

HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine said she wants to prioritize children’s mental health along with other research, treatment and recovery issues, saying the National Institute of Mental Health is in a unique position to study and rectify COVID-19's impact on youth mental health.

More than 30 Black women’s organizations say FDA should set up an advisory committee focused on racial and gender equity in clinical trials and revise its Institutional Review Board policies to ensure Black women, femmes, girls and gender-expansive people are represented in clinical trials and equitably compensated for their participation.

FDA is taking steps to address key medical device servicing issues, including by publishing a highly anticipated remanufacturing draft guidance that aims to draw a clear line between medical device servicing and remanufacturing activities and ensure original device manufacturers and third-party device servicers adhere to agency standards for fixing and updating medical devices.

CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Friday stressed a willingness to work with states interested in expanding their Medicaid programs, saying there’s still time for those that want to take advantage of the increased federal matching money in the American Rescue Plan.

World Trade Organization talks on an approach to waiving some intellectual property obligations in response to the pandemic will speed up to a weekly clip ahead of a July General Council meeting, when members are hoping to report some progress.

Members of the GOP Doctors Caucus want FDA to prioritize reviewing applications for tests that measure the presence of T-cell immunity to COVID-19, rather than focusing only on reviewing and authorizing applications for rapid diagnostics, point-of-care tests and variant diagnostics.

Senate Finance Committee members are focusing on how to build the country’s mental health care system as the number of Americans reporting anxiety or depression has nearly quadrupled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet more than 56% of adults did not receive any mental health treatment in the past year.