STAT+: Key Senate panel eyes action on drug shortages
WASHINGTON — One of the top health care committees in the Senate is assembling ideas…
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Opinion: The case against age limits for politicians
A recent poll from YouGov/CBS News showed that 77% of respondents said that there should…
STAT+: Congress extends some pandemic preparedness programs, but not all
WASHINGTON — Congress temporarily extended a few pandemic-preparedness programs when it forestalled a government shutdown…
STAT+: FDA seeks to regulate lab-developed tests, closing the ‘Theranos loophole’
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced its intention to start regulating tests developed…
STAT+: GOP senator probes drug discount programs at Cleveland Clinic, Bon Secours
WASHINGTON — The top ranking Republican on the Senate health committee is launching an investigation…
Did you have Obamacare on your GOP debate bingo card?
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Opinion: Congress could stop free public access to government-funded research
Have you ever needed to read a research paper, only to find it was locked…
Did the government get a bad deal on the Covid-19 boosters?
WASHINGTON — After Pfizer and Moderna hiked the prices of their Covid-19 vaccines this year,…
STAT+: 6 ways the government could help address drug shortages, including in cancer
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats alike want to stop drug shortages from happening. The vexing…
Republicans aren’t quite done talking about Obamacare, after all
WASHINGTON — In a far-ranging debate that touched on everything from border control issues to…
STAT+: Senate committee chair tries to spark negotiations to keep Medicare solvent
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee started what could become a bipartisan effort to extend…
STAT+: With Menendez indictment, pharmaceutical industry could lose a key ally
WASHINGTON — With mounting calls for embattled Sen. Bob Menendez to resign, the pharmaceutical industry…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage plans for dual-eligible enrollees set to get Senate scrutiny
The Senate has set its eyes on regulating insurance plans for some of the most…
Dairy farmers are running out of chances to kill the terms ‘oat milk’ and ‘soy milk’
WASHINGTON — Almond milk — not almond beverage, almond drink, or even almond juice —…
Opinion: Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage
The pressures of the last three and a half years have affected every corner of…
Markey and Manchin urge FDA to stop its study of opioids for chronic pain
Two Democratic senators are warning the Food and Drug Administration not to proceed with a…
Senate HELP on collision course
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STAT+: Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy clash over proposal to increase primary care doctors, nurses
WASHINGTON — In a striking display of discord Thursday, leaders of the Senate’s health committee…
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STAT+: Hearing on Medicare drug price negotiation gets unusually heated
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats fought it out over Medicare drug price negotiation Wednesday at…
Weed smokers often can’t work for the government. Some Republicans want to keep it that way
WASHINGTON — Roughly three quarters of states have legalized marijuana either for medical or recreational…
STAT+: PBMs were the target of House hearing, but pharma wasn’t spared criticism
WASHINGTON — Congress wants to reform PBM business practices to help lower the cost of…
STAT+: What happened to the House vote on health care price transparency?
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Rep. Adam Smith weighs in on the country’s mental health crisis with his own story
WASHINGTON — Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) knew when he hit rock bottom. “I woke up…
STAT+: House subcommittee forays into fixing drug shortages
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee took a first step today toward legislation to fix drug…
New Senate deal would ban some facility fees, reform hospital contracting
WASHINGTON — A new, bipartisan deal in the Senate to fund primary care programs also…
Opinion: PEPFAR, one of the greatest public health inventions of our time, is at risk
In the clinic where I work, I met a patient the other day whom I…
Opinion: STAT+: The IRA needs changes to better support patients with rare diseases
This time last year, members of Congress were working around the clock to draft and…
Is there a path forward for PEPFAR?
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NIH nominee Bertagnolli will get a confirmation hearing next month, Sanders says
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will hold a confirmation hearing next month for Monica…
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STAT+: House transparency, PBM reform bill gains bipartisan support
WASHINGTON — A Democrat has signed on to a legislative package that would require health…
A new House health package & hospitals’ new site-neutral talking points
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STAT+: Why the drug industry’s opaque warnings on price negotiations fall short
Ever since Medicare was given power to negotiate prices for certain medicines, the pharmaceutical industry…
STAT+: House committees strike deal on health transparency, PBM reform package
WASHINGTON — Republicans on three key House committees have reconciled their differing legislative packages to…
Opinion: Every senator should fill out a legislative advance directive
Advance directives were born in the Senate. Now they can help preserve the dignity of…
Opinion: Medicare beneficiaries deserve access to genetic counselors
Precision medicine driven by genetic health care is knocking on the door. It offers hope…
STAT+: Genentech weighs slow-walking ovarian cancer therapy to make more money under drug pricing reform
WASHINGTON — Plenty of pharmaceutical executives have decried Democrats’ new drug pricing law as detrimental…
Senators push IRS to launch nonprofit hospital probe
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators wants federal tax regulators to probe nonprofit hospitals’…
STAT+: White House drug shortage task force held rare in-person meeting with industry
WASHINGTON — A new White House task force on drug shortages held a rare in-person…
STAT+: Pharma industry showers House GOP doctor with campaign cash
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry has been flooding the campaign coffers of Rep. Larry Bucshon, a…
Opinion: Without a plan to fight superbugs, the Cancer Moonshot will never achieve liftoff
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health recently outlined strategies to tackle President Biden’s Cancer…
STAT+: House GOP offers new plan to stem drug shortages, including cancer drug shortages
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have drafted drug-shortage legislation that differs significantly from the approach Democrats…
Lawmakers circle parents’ rights in gender-affirming care hearing
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Thursday sought to turn around transgender advocates’ arguments that gender-affirming care…
STAT+: Key Republicans nix idea to give FDA new power to regulate CBD
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration says it needs Congress to give it more…
STAT+: Senate panel advances PBM reform — but sidesteps anything controversial
WASHINGTON — Senators on the Finance Committee on Wednesday nearly unanimously passed a bill to…
STAT+: Democrats decry a new health package as too easy on private equity
WASHINGTON — A rift between Democrats and Republicans over health care transparency was on full display…
STAT+: Democrats already want to expand Medicare’s drug price negotiation
WASHINGTON — It’s drug pricing déjà vu: Just as they did in 2019, House Democrats…
STAT+: Congress’s PBM reforms won’t end America’s drug pricing woes. Here’s what they would do
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in Congress generally agree that there’s something very broken with the way America…
STAT+: Key House panel proposes lowering out-of-pocket drug costs in Medicare
WASHINGTON — A key House committee announced their own plans to increase health care transparency…
STAT+: Lobbying spending dropped for companies that departed PhRMA
WASHINGTON — The three companies that recently left PhRMA all spent less on lobbying following…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders wants to replace drug patents with prizes for breakthrough medicines
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will finally get a study of his proposal to…