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China Enters the WHO Leadership Race: Who Is Song Li and What Her Nomination Means for Global Health

China has formally entered the race to lead the World Health Organization, putting forward senior public health official Song Li as its candidate for the organisation’s next Director-General. The announcement, made by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on October 8, 2026, comes at a particularly important moment for the WHO, which is preparing for a leadership transition while also de…

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Trump’s Medicare Drug Pricing Rule Shrinks From $11.9 Billion to $440 Million: How Pharma Deals Changed the Equation

The Trump administration has finalized a major Medicare drug-pricing experiment that was originally presented as a potentially multibillion-dollar effort to bring the price of certain medicines in the United States closer to what patients pay in other wealthy countries. But by the time the policy reached its final form, the projected savings had fallen dramatically. Medicare actuaries now estimat…

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