Advisory Board January 6, 2025
A new study published in JAMA Oncology found that prevention, screening, and advances in treatment helped avert almost 6 million deaths from five different types of cancer between 1975 and 2020, in today’s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Utah.
- District of Columbia: President-elect Donald Trump has selected John Brooks to lead his HHS landing team, Politico reports. Brooks was a senior Medicare official during Trump’s first term and later went on to advise former HHS Secretary Alex Azar on drug pricing policy. Since leaving the federal government, Brooks has run a health policy research and consulting firm. “As per the Transition MOU with the Biden Administration, the White House is...