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MAY 2, 2024

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APRIL 1, 2024

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today?  health agency make a controversial call about an ALS drug made by Biogen, and more.   Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. We see a U.K.

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JULY 12, 2023

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Longtime cancer doctor Monica Bertagnolli is finally heading to the National Institutes of Health director’s office after a nearly two-year effort to install a permanent leader atop the $48 billion science agency. Read the rest…

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APRIL 25, 2024

Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  You’re reading the web edition of D.C.   Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Why did the dairy cow cross state lines? After weeks of concern that the U.S.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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APRIL 18, 2024

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Today we take a look at how health care happens outside the exam room: in a kitchen, in politics, in the courts, and in poetry. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter  here. Good morning. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

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JANUARY 16, 2024

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. And then there were five (well, six) A pared-back field of five GOP presidential candidates sparred Wednesday night, touching on health issues ranging from hot-button election topics, to wonky budget math.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.  You’re reading the web edition of D.C.   Sign up here  to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Should ACA plans cover weight loss drugs?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

The device group also created a separate niche for digital health companies in October. Major deals in 2023 were scarce, funding was hard to come by, and valuations were down. On the policy side, the industry grappled with changing AI regulations, reimbursement woes, and device sterilization rules.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Medicare Advantage is arguably the most controversial health care program right now — a sentiment that was bolstered Friday by striking new data about overpayments and an uncommon political jab during a routine meeting of policy wonks.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Now experts say the government’s plans to end the Covid public health emergency on May 11 could further jeopardize the health and safety of trans people across the country. “Couple these with the end of the public health emergency, and more trans people will die.” As states across the U.S.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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MAY 3, 2022

Alain Labrique, PhD, professor and associate chair of research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) digital health guidelines development group discusses with us the ongoing research study, National Pandemic Pulse, he and his colleagues are performing in the US.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

As a health care economist who studies innovation, and as a management consultant who helps health systems and insurers adopt new technologies, we have had a ringside seat to a frustrating phenomenon: The large private sector of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Health secretary says government ‘not aware’ of issue but some independent outlets say stocks running low UK politics live – latest news updates Pharmacists are reporting UK-wide shortages of the antibiotics used to treat strep A, despite the health secretary insisting that the government is “not aware” of a problem.

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MAY 10, 2023

A Senate hearing on high insulin costs billed as a blockbuster showdown with drugmakers and middlemen turned out to be a familiar case of political theater that appeared to satisfy no one.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

But the AAP and other experts say the systematic review only indicates their confidence in the current standards of care, and their awareness of a need to stay on top of the evidence amid a changing political landscape in which anti-trans legislation — particularly targeting youth access to health care — has proliferated.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

Thirty years ago this week, the bill that became the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 — a game changer for research on women’s health — was introduced into the U.S. This landmark act has helped significantly improve women’s health in the United States and around the world.

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JUNE 5, 2023

billion in profit for Health Care Service Corp., Publicly traded health insurers were not the only ones in the industry that continued to amass large windfalls in 2022. A $203 million tax refund for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. the parent of five Blues plans. A quadrupling of profit at BCBS of Alabama.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

5 subvariants in May 2022, strongly supports a new unifying reality that combines sound science and good politics. This paradigm shift confronts the central public health “avoid exposure” dogma of the pandemic, which was once necessary but has now served its purpose. Read the rest…

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JULY 19, 2023

A new report, published by Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms and West Health, examined 11 states that regulate facility fees and conducted interviews with numerous government officials, patient advocates, health insurers, hospitals, and billing experts.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Radiology Specialists each registered with Forbes Tate Partners, a lobbying shop founded by political insiders who used to work in President Bill Clinton’s administration. The doctor groups hired Forbes Tate to lobby on “issues related to health care consolidation,” according to federal lobbying disclosures.

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JUNE 15, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be about to undergo a paradigm shift with the anticipated appointment of former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen as the agency’s next director. The Atlanta-based CDC has always prided itself at being at a remove from Washington, and the politics that engulf it.

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MARCH 1, 2023

It also expanded its program to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 for people who do have health insurance. The moves come amid a public and political uproar over the price of insulin. Previous moves by the industry have been largely viewed as insufficient and haven’t dulled the controversy around the issue.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Grand Bargain on antimicrobials would set out standards and commitments for the pharmaceutical industry The first recommendation has a political focus. Additional recommendations from the report: Implementing funding systems in high-income countries that attract investment for treatments that meet the needs of all countries.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

health care system. They argue the government may not always have the financial or budgetary wherewithal to fund prizes, awards may be vulnerable to political influence, and sometimes the expertise may be lacking to establishing the correct value in order to award an appropriate prize.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Twelve years after the Affordable Care Act was enacted, it appears to be here to stay, fully integrated into the nation’s health care system, extending coverage to more than 30 million Americans and protecting coverage against pre-existing conditions. Yet the ACA remains under legal attack, and one key part of it is in jeopardy.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Robert Oppenheimer’s story offers particularly salient lessons for health care leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. In another disconcerting similarity with Oppenheimer’s era, political actors who frame national policies around innovation seem disengaged with or are politicizing the nuances of science.

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