Here’s who Democrats’ drug pricing bill will actually help
WASHINGTON — Millions of patients in the Medicare program could eventually see lower prescription drug costs…
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In a massive victory for Democrats, Medicare is poised to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — President Biden is on the verge of his own crowning health care achievement…
Democrats dramatically narrow their ambitions for lowering insulin costs
WASHINGTON — Democrats’ high hopes to lower insulin costs for patients with insurance got downsized on…
Democrats will have to limit their drug pricing reforms to Medicare to comply with Senate rules
WASHINGTON — Democrats will likely have to axe two provisions from their drug pricing plan…
The glaring health equity gap in Democrats’ drug pricing plan
WASHINGTON — As Democrats close in on the biggest overhaul of the Medicare prescription drug…
Cities are lobbying to host the ARPA-H headquarters. Experts don’t understand why
WASHINGTON — America’s mayors are drooling over President Biden’s new high-stakes research agency, ARPA-H. They…
Biden tests positive for Covid-19 again — in a case of ‘Paxlovid rebound’
President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus again Saturday, the White House said, an example…
White House summit sets lofty goals for new Covid vaccines — but largely sidesteps questions of funding
WASHINGTON — Top White House officials spent Tuesday laying out a vision for a Covid…
‘Critically important work’: Adm. Rachel Levine on efforts to combat gender-based discrimination in health care
A day after the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to strengthen protections…
STATUS List Spotlight: Blazing a Trail for Transgender Rights ft. Admiral Rachel L. Levine
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 2:00 pm. This February,…
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Senators demand answers about federal prisons’ scant use of Covid therapeutics
WASHINGTON — Fourteen senators are demanding that the federal Bureau of Prisons explain its scant…
STAT+: ‘What can we do?’: Pharma lobbyists face their biggest test in a decade, as Democrats barrel toward a vote on drug pricing
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry, notorious for its deep pockets and aggressive lobbying tactics, has a…
White House to launch effort to develop next generation of Covid vaccines
The Biden administration is preparing a sweeping initiative to develop a next generation of Covid-19…
After STAT report, GOP lawmakers seek answers about defunct NIH oversight committee
WASHINGTON — A trio of congressional Republicans wants to know why a committee tasked with…
Biden picks renowned cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli as NCI chief
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has selected Monica Bertagnolli, a renowned surgical oncologist, as the…
President Biden tests positive for Covid-19, but has ‘very mild symptoms’
President Biden tested positive for Covid-19 Thursday — a coronavirus case that reflects both the…
Powerful Senate Democrat outlines ‘plenty’ more drug pricing reforms to follow Medicare negotiation
WASHINGTON — Democrats may be closer than ever to passing sweeping drug pricing reforms, but…
FDA weighs oversight changes after Juul, formula troubles
WASHINGTON — The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday he has commissioned…
STAT+: The politics of passing a major FDA funding bill just got complicated
WASHINGTON — For the last six months, Congress seemed to be sailing towards the uncharacteristically…
Biden tells Dems to quickly pass pared-down economic package
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden seemed to bow Friday to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand…
Major abortion pill maker GenBioPro hires its first lobbyists in Washington
WASHINGTON – GenBioPro, which sells the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, hired its…
Durbin, Collins blast FDA for failure to ban certain synthetic e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON — Two key senators say the FDA “appears to be on the brink of…
FDA appears to hold off on crackdown on synthetic nicotine products, despite calls from Congress
WASHINGTON — Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration a clear directive to crack down…
STAT+: Here’s what Democrats changed in their latest drug pricing bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats have put final tweaks on their drug pricing proposal, as they…
STAT+: In the search for an ARPA-H director, the White House is zeroing in on DARPA veterans
WASHINGTON — The White House is zeroing in on former DARPA officials as candidates to…
Democrats tweak their drug pricing plan in last-ditch effort to pass reforms
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are vetting a new, tweaked version of a drug pricing package as…
STAT+: A rich Republican businessman is an unlikely champion for lower hospital prices — but he’s winning the fight
INDIANAPOLIS — Al Hubbard isn’t the typical crusader for lowering health care costs. Hubbard and…
STAT+: What we know — and what we may never know — about why the FDA banned Juul
WASHINGTON – Even some of the nation’s top tobacco experts were surprised by the Food…
The Biden administration wants to get tough on states’ abortion pill restrictions. It won’t be easy
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland is hinting he’s ready to get tough on states…
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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been…
STAT+: Despite fanfare, the FDA’s step toward lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes is a very early one
WASHINGTON — When the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it would eventually lower the…
STAT+: New Senate proposal to lower insulin prices would let drugmakers lock in their current profits
WASHINGTON — A new proposal that senators claim would fix insulin pricing would actually allow…
STAT+: Congress is closer than ever to formally authorizing ARPA-H. But the details aren’t as final as they seem
WASHINGTON — It seemed like the debate over President Biden’s new high-stakes science agency, ARPA-H,…
Biden picks former DARPA director Prabhakar as next science adviser
WASHINGTON — President Biden will soon nominate Arati Prabhakar, a physicist and former DARPA director,…
STAT+: Senate lawmakers introduce a bill to help the FDA and the U.S. Patent Office coordinate
Amid concerns that patent reviewers disregard competitive effects on prescription drugs, a bipartisan group of…
STAT+: Supreme Court rules in favor of insurance plan that pushed kidney failure patient to Medicare
Patients with kidney failure face a murky future if they have insurance coverage through a…
On Covid messaging, Biden is caught between politics and public health
WASHINGTON — When it comes to Covid-19, President Biden is walking a tightrope. The midterm…
STAT+: Lawmakers ask GAO to probe pharmacy benefit managers over their role in drug pricing
Amid intensifying scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers, a group of House Republicans is urging the…
Romney accuses White House of ‘patently false’ information about Covid-19 funds
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, a prominent Republican senator who spearheaded failed Covid-19 response funding negotiations, on…
STAT+: Supreme Court sides with hospitals on Medicare drug pay dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with hospitals in a legal dispute over…
STAT+: Klobuchar, Porter call for FTC to investigate price hikes by Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb
WASHINGTON — Two prominent Democratic lawmakers are requesting that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether…
Francis Collins on his new life as White House science adviser
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins’ 2022 hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. The mustachioed, Harley-riding geneticist…
How much medicine does the U.S. actually have to fight monkeypox?
WASHINGTON — As the world grapples with a monkeypox outbreak, the Biden administration has been quick…
STAT+: Francis Collins: Concern about independence of new moonshot science agency ARPA-H are ‘overblown’
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins thinks the debate surrounding the Biden administration’s new high-stakes research agency…
How the Covid-19 pandemic prepared the White House to respond to monkeypox
WASHINGTON — The man at the center of the White House’s biodefense strategy is only…
STAT+: The American Medical Association is fighting an otherwise popular bill to require training doctors about opioid use disorder
WASHINGTON — The American Medical Association wants doctors to have more training on treating people…
Biden administration won’t lower seniors’ Medicare premiums this year, despite changes to coverage of new Alzheimer’s drug
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday said it will not lower Medicare premiums for…
STAT+: Key Senate committee proposes a council to ensure FDA better coordinates on accelerated approvals
WASHINGTON — The Senate is taking pains to avoid another Aduhelm controversy. In new bipartisan…
Key Senate panel wants to axe in-person requirement for virtual mental health services
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators working on mental health policy have proposed axing…
STAT+: There may be a backdoor way for hospitals to get paid for uninsured Covid-19 care
WASHINGTON — The federal health department shut down a program that paid hospitals and clinics…