STAT+: Bernie Sanders adds three drug shortage policies to pandemic preparedness bill
WASHINGTON — Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders added three drug shortage measures to a…
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STAT+: Johnson & Johnson sues to stop Medicare negotiation
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday became the third drugmaker to sue the…
STAT+: Conservative group opposing PBM reform spends record number on lobbying
WASHINGTON — A conservative group advocating against changing how pharmacy middlemen operate spent more than…
STAT+: Medicare has a new plan to address drug shortages — but it could backfire
WASHINGTON — Medicare has a new proposal to pay hospitals more to stockpile essential drugs…
STAT+: Key House panel plots a new health care package — complicating the chamber’s agenda
WASHINGTON — It’s two weeks until Congress leaves town in August, and a prominent House panel…
STAT+: As fear rises over AI, Google and Epic fight stronger regulation of the technology in health care
Big businesses poised to profit from the advance of artificial intelligence in health care are…
Democrats press government to extend free Covid-19 tests indefinitely
WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators is pressing a national panel to make a…
In N.C., Mandy Cohen built bridges to GOP. Can she find consensus as new CDC director?
Mandy Cohen, who this week became the new director of the Centers for Disease Control…
STAT+: House panel passes public health bills following contentious debate
WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee on Thursday voted along party lines…
STAT+: How a key Senate committee is planning to regulate pharmacy benefit managers
WASHINGTON — A key Senate health care panel has developed a plan to tackle reforms…
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Three reasons why Chuck Schumer’s crusade against Logan Paul’s energy drink will likely fizzle out
WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the most powerful person in the U.S. Senate, wants…
There’s a bill well-suited for drug shortage reforms, but Congress isn’t interested
WASHINGTON — Congress is considering a must-pass pandemic preparedness bill that presents a good opportunity…
STAT+: NIH fellows, weighing a union, want a pay raise. Will that mean less money for grants?
Several thousand research fellows at the National Institutes of Health want to unionize, in large…
Biden’s NIH nominee is languishing in Congress — alarming public health advocates
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders’ rare move to delay President Biden’s health care nominees has…
STAT+: Medicare wants to send $9 billion to 340B hospitals — coupled with cuts
WASHINGTON — Medicare is planning to send $9 billion in lump sum payments to more…
STAT+: Home health providers sue Medicare over payment cuts, despite near record profits
The National Association of Home Care and Hospice sued the Biden administration to halt the…
New Biden initiative targets controversial hospital ‘facility fees’ that often surprise patients
As part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to lower health care costs, the White…
STAT+: House panel expected to mark up pandemic-preparedness bill next week
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee will next week mark up a package of public health…
Biden launches a new push to limit health care costs hoping to show he can save money for families
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden on Friday rolled out a new set of initiatives to…
How the political right came to back psychedelics to treat trauma
DENVER — When former Texas Gov. Rick Perry strode onto the stage at the largest…
STAT+: From ‘Jeopardy!’ to Politico, the PBM ad wars are taking over D.C.
WASHINGTON – If you live in this city, you’re probably awash in pharmacy benefit manager…
After affirmative action ruling, medical education leaders see silver lining in court endorsement of ‘holistic review’
After having a day to read through the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, some…
STAT+: Medicare details the structure of its new drug price negotiation program
WASHINGTON — Medicare on Friday released new details about how its new drug price negotiation…
Medical leaders decry Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
Medical leaders on Thursday reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court’s decision to severely restrict the…
Supreme Court strikes down use of affirmative action, a blow to efforts to diversify medical schools
Overturning decades of precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the use of…
STAT+: Trump demands the U.S. pay no more for drugs than other countries … again
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump is back to campaigning for tying Medicare drug prices to…
STAT+: Protestors slam health insurance lobby for Medicare Advantage coverage restrictions
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of activists rallied today outside of the headquarters of the country’s largest…
STAT+: Grail faces uphill battle to get Medicare to cover its cancer screening test
WASHINGTON — Grail is aggressively lobbying to get Medicare to pay for its cancer-screening test…
Biden directs HHS to boost contraception access, a year after Dobbs decision
WASHINGTON – President Biden on Friday told federal health officials to boost contraception access, the…
STAT+: Congress explores changes to the way Medicare pays doctors
Congress is taking early steps towards changing the way Medicare pays physicians. At a hearing…
STAT+: Medicare puts out new details for covering the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, as the health system readies for potential approval
WASHINGTON — The health care system is on the precipice of broad access to a treatment…
STAT+: The strategy behind the pharmaceutical industry’s flurry of lawsuits challenging drug pricing reform
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry has been filing a lawsuit here, there, and pretty much everywhere….
FDA moves to stop vape shops from selling Elf Bar, Esco Bars
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is ramping up its efforts to force vape…
House GOP inquiry over gain-of-function research targets a scientific giant
For more than half a century, scientist Bernard Moss has been commanding the attention of…
STAT+: Doctors’ lobby doubles down on the fight against expanding open access to research
Doctors’ lobbyists in Washington tend to focus their energies on ensuring Medicare pays well, and…
STAT+: European companies outline opposition to proposed overhaul of pharma policy
BRUSSELS — Leaders of European pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday said that a proposed overhaul of…
STAT+: Drug middlemen catch flak at another congressional hearing
Drug middlemen once again were on the hot seat at a congressional hearing on Wednesday….
Sen. Grassley calls on GOP leaders to rally support for PBM reforms
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to see his party’s leadership turn up the…
STAT+: PhRMA sues Biden administration over Medicare drug price negotiation program
WASHINGTON — After losing the drug pricing fight on Capitol Hill, PhRMA is taking its battle…
STAT+: Top federal lobbyist at PhRMA leaves
WASHINGTON — The top federal lobbyist for the brand drug lobby PhRMA is leaving, two…
Government panel spurns calls for broader suicide risk screening
A panel of government advisers is sticking with its recommendation that providers screen most adults…
STAT+: ‘It’s beyond unethical’: Opaque conflicts of interest permeate prescription drug benefits
Employers across the country — from big names like Boeing and UPS to local school…
STAT+: How drug pricing reforms are affecting Bayer’s investments
WASHINGTON — Pharma companies have long been warning Democrats’ drug pricing reforms could discourage investment in…
STAT+: The FDA is testing new nutrition labels on the front of food packages
WASHINGTON — The FDA wants to make it easier for consumers to know if the…
STAT+: Key House Republican escalates rhetoric against PBMs
WASHINGTON — A key House Republican ramped up his criticism of pharmacy benefit managers Tuesday,…
CDC’s Walensky parries Republican criticism over Biden’s Covid response
WASHINGTON — One of the very last duties of one of President Biden’s very first…
STAT+: Chamber of Commerce tries new legal arguments to challenge Medicare drug-price negotiation
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the federal government over its new Medicare drug-price…
STAT+: Top Senate Republican signals interest in site-neutral reform for hospitals
WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican signaled his interest in pursuing hospital payment reform to…
STAT+: If AI invents a new medicine, who gets the patent?
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence to discover and make drugs and…
STAT+: Sen. Cassidy wants to put a stop to FDA delays in drug review process
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is looking into ways to speed up the Food…