Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, huddled with House Republicans on Wednesday to discuss anti-fraud measures, as House leadership seeks to pass a fraud-focused party-line budget bill. On Wednesday morning, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters Oz was coming to meet with a group of House Republicans...

People who have been hoodwinked by transgender ideology and the medical establishment telling them to physically damage their own bodies in pursuit of a false identity may have a strong new remedy. The Department of Justice and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week a seismic shift in medicine. For the first time, a...

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THE WASHINGTON STAND—The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in which the hospital not only committed to never again carry out gender transition procedures on minors, but also agreed to open the nation’s first detransitioner clinic and fully fund it for five years. TCH gained notoriety in 2023 when...

A century ago, the U.S. federal government made a straightforward decision: If you sell food to Americans, the government will verify that it is safe. Not by reviewing self-submissions. Not by relying on self-representations, but by showing up and seeing for itself. The system relied on Food and Drug Administration officials making surprise inspections and...

The acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has promised to prioritize a safety review of the abortion pill after his predecessor was accused of delaying it, pro-life leaders say.  Kyle Diamantas, FDA deputy commissioner for food, is serving as acting FDA commissioner in the wake of Dr. Marty Makary’s departure.  Though the Trump...

My 14-year-old son Ryu has a terminal rare disease. We were to travel from Texas to the District of Columbia on May 12 to attend a Senate hearing on the Food and Drug Administration budget. There, Ryu had hoped to meet our senator, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to shake his hand, and to tell him a...

The abortion issue won’t go away, as so many politicians wish it would. It persists because the discussion and debate are about our very existence. What is life? The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, which has defined the abortion landscape in the United States...

Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses. Consider Ohio. At one address in Columbus,...

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general is a resounding win for the pro-life movement but might not be for the Make America Healthy Again movement. Trump tapped Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be his third nominee for U.S. surgeon general after withdrawing Dr. Casey Means’ nomination, which failed to get...

“Duty to Disobey,” a documentary examining the experiences of U.S. service members who refused the COVID‑19 vaccine mandated by former President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense, is set to hit theaters in June. The film details what happened to men and women in uniform who declined the mandate. It explores physical injuries linked to the...

When Assistant Secretary of Health Alex Adams led the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, he ended the state’s “orphan tax.” Now he is helping every other state do the same thing. “We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re gonna keep at this,” said Adams, who leads the Administration of Children and Families...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The American Medical Association Foundation website no longer includes listings for race-based scholarships after a medical watchdog suggested the foundation should lose its tax-exempt status for racial discrimination. Do No Harm, a watchdog group of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, aims to expose racial discrimination, transgender ideology, and other…