{"id":283222,"date":"2026-02-10T04:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/283222\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:09:13","slug":"trumprx-pricing-cervical-cancer-nih-who-morning-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/283222\/","title":{"rendered":"TrumpRx pricing, cervical cancer, NIH, WHO: Morning Rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good morning. I hope you watched the exact amount of football that you wanted to yesterday, and ate the exact right number of pigs in a blanket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The truth behind TrumpRx drug prices<\/p>\n

President Trump claims that the administration\u2019s new TrumpRx website will offer the cheapest prices in the world for 43 brand-name drugs \u2014 and counting. But a STAT analysis found that about half the drugs are already available as generics, usually for much less money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey added a bunch of brands that have generics. So we beat them there. Usually by a lot,\u201d said Mark Cuban, the former Shark Tank judge who runs his own direct-to-consumer drug site called Cost Plus Drugs. Read more<\/a> from my colleagues on the specifics, including where people may be able to find even cheaper prices.<\/p>\n

A new rule puts NIH grant reviewers at risk<\/p>\n

Last spring, the Trump administration proposed a personnel rule that would reclassify broad swaths of federal bureaucrats as political appointees, leaving their employment up to the whim of the administration in power. That rule was finalized last week, and despite the fact that 94% of the public comments on the rule were against it, the final language appeared largely unchanged.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> from STAT\u2019s Anil Oza on how the rule could further politicize NIH grant decisions. And for more on the federal agency chaos beat, read Jason Mast\u2019s Friday story about layoffs at ARPA-H<\/a>, the \u201cmoonshot\u201d biomedical agency established under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

China criticizes U.S. for WHO withdrawal<\/p>\n

A representative from China criticized the U.S. on Friday for withdrawing from the World Health Organization, saying that countries should not place domestic policies ahead of international law. The comment was made at a meeting of the WHO\u2019s executive board, during a discussion about pullouts from both the U.S. and Argentina.<\/p>\n

The discussion was surprisingly short, per STAT\u2019s Helen Branswell \u2014 less than five minutes. Only representatives from China, North Korea, and Israel made comments. Read more<\/a> from Helen on what exactly everyone had to say.<\/p>\n

Who will take care of you?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a simple question, but one that professor, neurologist, and STAT columnist Jason Karlawish believes will start a revolution in both the ethics and\u00a0practice of dementia care. \u201cTo fail to ask this question, I think, is a failure to deliver what ought to be the standard of care,\u201d he writes in a new column.<\/p>\n

It might not sound intuitive, but Karlawish argues that asking this question preserves patient autonomy, while diseases that cause dementia threaten it. Read more<\/a> about how the standard practice for dementia caregiving has changed over time and where the future may lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Survey says: Most women don\u2019t want to do their own cervical cancer screenings\u00a0<\/p>\n

For many women, at-home self-sampling is just as effective at cervical cancer screening as a pap smear at the doctor\u2019s office, according to new federal recommendations<\/a>. But nationally representative survey data from 2024, published Friday in JAMA Network Open<\/a>, shows that most women\u00a0actually prefer going to the clinic in-person.<\/p>\n

The study found that out of 2,300 women, 61% responded that they\u2019d prefer to have a clinician do the test in their office if given the choice. Twenty percent preferred doing it themselves at home, while 19% were uncertain. Respondents who\u2019d experienced prejudice or discrimination were much more likely to prefer at-home sampling.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re reading<\/p>\n

The FDA quietly slapped more restrictions on the birth control implant, Autonomy News<\/a><\/p>\n

First Opinion: As a scientist and NFL widow, I am furious about a recent NFL Players Association-funded CTE study, STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known, Nature<\/a><\/p>\n

White House looks for more drug pricing deals to add to TrumpRx, STAT<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the word? Test your knowledge with today\u2019s STAT Mini crossword<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT\u2019s free newsletter Morning Rounds.\u00a0Sign up here.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,1541,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-283222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}