STAT+: Don’t write off MDMA yet: How the FDA got on board with psychedelics
Days after an advisory committee resoundingly voted for the Food and Drug Administration to reject…
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Upending Purdue Pharma’s settlement does little to help today’s opioid crisis, advocates say
The drug policy world has been left torn by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday…
Biden and Trump spar over Medicare and abortion in a presidential debate filled with mistakes and falsehoods
WASHINGTON — For the most part, substantive debates on health policy between President Biden and…
Pressed on addiction, Trump and Biden talk border security but don’t mention treatment
President Biden and former President Trump were each given the chance on Thursday to speak…
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House panel passes bills to expand Medicare obesity drug coverage, cancer screening
WASHINGTON — A House committee overwhelmingly passed four bills on Thursday that would expand Medicare…
Biden’s Supreme Court abortion wins could be short lived
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court this month handed President Biden a pair of wins on…
Key health care topics to watch out for at the Biden-Trump debate
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Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday released an opinion allowing emergency abortions in Idaho but…
Exclusive: European VC Forbion hires Dyne CEO, expands into US
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Q&A: Lessons from the HHS secretary who ran Bush’s bird flu response
WASHINGTON — Mike Leavitt is in the small club of government officials who’ve led an…
FDA issues long-awaited draft guidance for enrolling more people of color in clinical trials
The Food and Drug Administration has drafted guidance aimed at getting drug companies and medical…
The Supreme Court appears set to reject Idaho’s near-total abortion ban
The Supreme Court appears ready to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, according to a document…
House panel proposes new strategy for Medicare to cover weight loss drugs Wegovy, Zepbound
WASHINGTON — As weight loss medications have exploded in popularity, a bill to allow Medicare…
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden’s use of bully pulpit to fight Covid misinformation
The Supreme Court on June 26 rebuffed states and anti-lockdown advocates who said the government…
Intellia says its CRISPR-based therapy can be redosed
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Opinion: CNN debate moderators could provide the cognitive tests that Biden and Trump have been avoiding
The two primary contenders for the presidency of the United States — President Joe Biden…
Stop blindly allowing MA plans to use AI to deny care, lawmakers urge Biden administration
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to prohibit Medicare Advantage insurers…
Senators push Medicare for a PET scan pay bump
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One firm, two conflicting takes on Alnylam’s HELIOS-B
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The Supreme Court will consider state bans on gender-affirming care for minors
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to…
The findings from Alnylam’s highly anticipated readout
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STAT+: Ateev Mehrotra, the researcher the telehealth lobby loves to hate, isn’t backing down
WASHINGTON — He hardly seems the part of the telehealth industry’s public enemy No. 1….
STAT+: House panel weighs new plan for Medicare coverage of Wegovy, cancer blood tests
WASHINGTON — A House panel is exploring holding a vote on scaled-back versions of two…
Can JAK inhibitors bolster checkpoint inhibitors?
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Lilly takes more actions against unapproved versions of Mounjaro
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A new era for NIH
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A biotech’s binary bet ends badly
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With sweeping NIH reform on the table, GOP previews new era of research scrutiny
WASHINGTON — There seems to be broad agreement that change is coming for the National…
This federal rule didn’t stop coercive sterilization — but it blocked contraceptive access. Can it be fixed?
Sonya Borrero didn’t learn about forced sterilization in medical school. She learned about it from…
FDA offers new guidelines for Covid-19 vaccine
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Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces
In 2019, amid an ever-worsening drug crisis, the federal government launched a research study with…
Novo Nordisk CEO agrees to Bernie Sanders’ demand to testify on Ozempic, Wegovy prices
WASHINGTON — Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen will testify before the Senate after Sen….
Opinion: NIH needs reform and restructuring, key Republican committee chairs say
While the best parts of biomedical innovation are represented by ringing the bell at a…
J.P. Morgan has officially jumped into early stage biotech investing
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Biopharma execs cheer Supreme Court for upholding FDA authority in abortion pill case
On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected an effort by anti-abortion doctors to bar the mailing…
Supreme Court unanimously rejects challenge to mailed abortion pills
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that anti-abortion doctors did not have standing to challenge the…
With Avidity and Pfizer, gene therapy enters a phase
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Biden and Trump are fighting to claim credit for $35 insulin. It was actually a pharma giant’s idea
WASHINGTON — Both President Biden and former President Trump love to claim credit for getting…
Senators slam the FDA’s new vape enforcement plan: ‘What in the hell have you been waiting for?’
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice claim they’re getting…
What do Parkinson’s and obesity have in common?
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House Republicans press for new guardrails on ‘gain-of-function’ research by NIH
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders of a prominent committee overseeing federal health agencies are pushing to…
Bernie Sanders calls vote to subpoena Novo Nordisk U.S. head over Ozempic, Wegovy prices
WASHINGTON — Senate health committee chair Bernie Sanders has called a vote to subpoena the…
Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s candidate, Bob Langer’s new startup, and other biotech news you need to know
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals has another suitor
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‘Concern is real’ about long Covid’s impact on Americans and disability claims, report says
The Covid pandemic has been called a “mass-disabling event” since early on — the kind…
Novovax will be able to supply Covid-19 vaccines this fall
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Testing begins for a new form of PrEP
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Senators tussle over abortion policy against the backdrop of a presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, U.S. senators on…
Operation Warp Speed but for rare disease
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Anthony Fauci, facing GOP accusers, says debate on Covid origins has been ‘seriously distorted’
WASHINGTON — Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease official and a longtime foil…