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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) requested information from Aflac following a recent cyberattack on their internal data systems. This comes amid increasing cyberattacks on the health care sector. In 2024, there were over 700...

WASHINGTON – Last week, Fox Business traveled with U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to the Walls Alligator Farm in Springfield, LA. On the visit, Cassidy and Secretary Chavez-DeRemer touted pro-worker policies in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first GLP-1 drug to treat patients with metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that affects approximately 14.9 million...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted multiple U.S. hospital systems and health providers that have stopped providing dangerous, life-altering gender transition services to children. This is a direct result of President Trump and Cassidy’s...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Texas Department of State Health Services formally declaring the end of the measles outbreak in West Texas. It has been more than 42 days since a new measles case was reported in...