STAT August 14, 2025
Good morning. I spent most of last night on an Amtrak train home from New York, reading the latest novel from a wonderful writer that I worked with in my past life as a book publicist: “Moderation” by Elaine Castillo.
Efforts to improve health care undermined by cuts
A small federal agency that studies how to improve the health care system has been rendered functionally “incapacitated” after much of its staff was laid off or retired, according to three people who spoke with STAT’s Chelsea Cirruzo. In April, about half of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality was estimated to have been laid off as the Trump administration began a massive restructuring of HHS. But folks who spoke with...
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