STAT+: Medicare paves the way for CAR-T in doctors offices
WASHINGTON — Medicare officials have taken a step toward making a cutting-edge cancer treatment called…
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STAT+: HHS will seek more input on its new Medicare drug price negotiations
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up to start releasing…
Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?
WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of…
STAT+: HHS will decide how to resolve $1 billion in payments for 340B hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will get to decide how to…
Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee
WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with…
STAT+: Rep. Jason Smith and the other Republicans leading health policy in the House
Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri will helm the powerful House Ways & Means Committee this…
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STAT+: 3 drug pricing issues to watch in 2023
WASHINGTON — The legislative saga on drug pricing is mostly over for now, but drug…
Priorities pile up for HHS, FDA, CMS, NIH, and other health agencies
WASHINGTON — The nation’s health agencies already have a long to-do list for 2023. Top…
FDA, Biogen, and an Alzheimer’s drug approval: 8 key takeaways from congressional investigation
Congressional investigators sorted through more than 500,000 pages of documents from the Food and Drug…
STAT+: ‘Rife with irregularities’: Congressional investigation reveals FDA’s approval of Aduhelm marked by secret discussions, breaches of protocol
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s review and approval of a controversial Alzheimer’s drug…
New FDA guidance explains that Plan B is not an abortion pill
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday altered the language attached to emergency contraceptive pills…
After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House
WASHINGTON — The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House…
STAT+: Medicare’s home hospital program may soon get a lifeline from Congress. Can it prove its worth?
A Medicare program that allowed approved health systems to bill for hospital care delivered in…
STAT+: Biden admin shares ownership data for thousands of hospitals, improving transparency about private equity’s stake
Citing its commitment to transparency and promoting competition, the Biden administration on Tuesday released a…
Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care
Last week, the state of Texas issued a long-awaited report that found at least 118…
STAT+: Audit of FDA’s tobacco oversight underscores agency’s struggle to regulate the booming vaping market
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products is lacking clear goals…
Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness
WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to…
STAT+: AbbVie exits major pharmaceutical industry lobbying groups
WASHINGTON — The maker of one of the world’s most profitable medicines is exiting the…
STAT+: New Biden changes to Obamacare coverage for generics splits the industry
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration signaled Monday that it will require health plans on federal…
STAT+: Medicare chief: ‘Door is really open’ on coverage for new Alzheimer’s drug
Medicare is willing to re-evaluate its coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs in light of a new…
Walensky says CDC needs more authority from Congress to collect public health data
WASHINGTON — The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention needs Congress to help it collect…
STAT+: Mark Cuban teams with a business coalition in bid to lower drug costs for employers
In his latest bid to expand access to lower-cost medicines, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug…
STAT+: Congress has a chance to close the FDA’s Theranos loophole
WASHINGTON – Theranos, and the company’s notoriously inaccurate blood tests, could potentially have been stopped…
STAT+: ARPA-H’s new director wants to go on a hiring spree
President Biden’s new health agency with a sweeping mandate to cure some of the system’s…
STAT+: FDA chief calls agency’s food program ‘under-supported, under-resourced’
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the food side of the agency needs more attention Wednesday,…
Congress has its sights set too low on addiction, advocates charge
Judging by lawmakers’ words, addiction might be the most bipartisan topic in Washington. For years,…
STAT+: A year after petition, NIH reviews request to lower cancer drug’s cost by sidestepping patents
One year after being asked to widen access to a pricey cancer treatment by using…
STAT+: AAM’s Dan Leonard, president of generic drug lobby, ousted
The generic drug industry’s lobbying group, the Association for Accessible Medicines, fired its president Dan…
Abortion rights groups look to next fights after 2022 wins
CHICAGO — Emboldened by the results of November’s midterms, abortion rights supporters say they are…
Resistance to FDA’s opioid-disposal plan raises concerns about CADCA, a powerful advocacy group
At its surface, it seems like a simple problem with a simple solution. Across the…
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STAT+: PhRMA, once invincible in Washington, has lost its edge
WASHINGTON — PhRMA has a reputation in Washington for might, for money, for scorched-earth tactics,…
STAT+: Patient groups push federal government to enforce health care price estimates
People don’t receive bills after going to a grocery store or a mechanic’s shop. They…
In a Republican-led House, anti-science probes top the agenda
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 investigations are coming. When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives…
Chelsea Clinton on abortion care and the connection between democracy and women’s health
To pundits, the midterm election was supposed to be a referendum on inflation. They predicted…
White House science adviser Alondra Nelson on the midterms, the cancer moonshot, and a book in the works
Science, according to President Joe Biden’s deputy science adviser Alondra Nelson, is more bipartisan than…
The FDA has banned certain vapes and medicines. We still bought these 13 products in its backyard
WHITE OAK, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration, as the name suggests, is supposed…
A Democratic Senate improves the outlook for Biden health and science priorities, including key nominees
WASHINGTON — The outlook for the White House’s health and science priorities just got a…
Colorado poised to become second state with legalized ‘medicinal psychedelics’
Colorado looks set to legalize magic mushrooms in this week’s midterm elections, with the group…
Legal at one clinic, illegal at another: How abortion bans make gestational age even less precise
If you want to understand the fickleness of pregnancy and the American laws that regulate…
Vermont establishes a constitutional right to an abortion
WASHINGTON — Vermont will make abortion a constitutional right after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot…
California bans flavored tobacco products, including vapes
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Californians overwhelmingly voted to ban all flavored tobacco products in the…
In Arizona’s race for governor, Kari Lake fans Republican fury over Fauci, fentanyl and gender-affirming care
TEMPE, AZ. — On a windy, warm November night, thousands of Arizona Democrats lined the…
STAT+: After years of lax oversight, the NIH is starting to contact institutions about unreported clinical trial results
In recent weeks, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has begun emailing academic institutions that…
‘We’re sick of watching women die’: In Michigan, doctors rally to protect abortion access
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Doctors are on the frontlines of a political battle raging across…
STAT+: Amid concerns over U.S. democracy, pharma helped finance committees that support election deniers
As Americans head to the polls, some candidates continue to deny the results of the…
Free sunscreen, ear plugs — and Covid shots? At the NASCAR race, vaccinations are still a tough sell
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Under the bright lights of the Phoenix Raceway, as a hundred thousand…
Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching
WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms…
STAT+: A ‘blank check’: Bill to boost antibiotic development blasted as a ‘flawed’ giveaway to pharma
Amid mounting concern over antibiotic resistance, a coalition of academics and advocacy groups is urging…
‘Our community is supported at the highest levels’: Adm. Rachel Levine on gender-affirming care
BOSTON — As the health and safety of trans and queer youth are jeopardized across…