Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee
The Senate health care committee will consider a sweeping bill next week meant to combat…
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Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker…
Opinion: Big Weed today is a whole lot like Big Tobacco in the 1950s
OK, marijuana is now legal. So where’s the public health approach? Strictly speaking, marijuana use…
STAT+: Senate Republicans throw cold water on so-called site-neutral hospital pay cuts
WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
CDC Director Mandy Cohen unscathed in her first congressional testimony
WASHINGTON — House Republicans sought Thursday to hammer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
STAT+: Biden defends Trump-era drug pricing rule on copay accumulators
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling against a Trump-era regulation that…
STAT+: FDA chief scientist to replace Woodcock
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief scientist will replace retiring Janet Woodcock as principal…
STAT+: White House official dings Bristol-Myers Squibb for fighting off generic competition
WASHINGTON — A top White House official on Tuesday delivered a pointed attack at a…
STAT+: Scott Gottlieb, Trump FDA chief, questions whether there’s a Republican philosophy on health care
WASHINGTON — One of the Republican party’s most prominent health care thinkers doesn’t know what…
STAT+: Biden invokes Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages
WASHINGTON — President Biden is using a Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages by…
STAT+: House Republicans call CDC director to testify
WASHINGTON — A House committee that has sparred with the Biden administration over its handling…
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STAT+: Prominent pharmaceutical industry ally Anna Eshoo to retire
WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Eshoo, one of the House of Representatives’ top Democrats on health…
STAT+: Sen. Bernie Sanders publicly pressures Merck, J&J, and Bristol Myers Squibb to testify on drug pricing
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday mounted a public…
STAT+: Delay of eye drop recall highlights FDA’s impotence on the issue
WASHINGTON — It took nearly three weeks for a maker of eye drops to recall…
STAT+: Biden appoints Vanderbilt oncologist to head National Cancer Institute
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday said he plans to appoint cancer researcher and doctor…
STAT+: FDA’s Janet Woodcock to retire early next year
WASHINGTON — Principal Deputy FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock will retire early next year from the…
STAT+: House panel passes PBM reforms, ratcheting up chance for passage
WASHINGTON — Panels in both the House and Senate have now passed restrictions to drug…
STAT+: FDA’s latest reorganization puts a new emphasis on its investigations
WASHINGTON — There’s about to be a new acronym in town. The Food and Drug…
STAT+: House moves to limit so-called gain-of-function research
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers late Tuesday voted to attach a U.S. ban on controversial infectious…
STAT+: To get things done fast at FDA: ‘Don’t tell anybody,’ cancer chief says
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s top cancer drug regulator doesn’t always ask for…
STAT+: New NIH head says government has fallen behind pharma on clinical trials
WASHINGTON — The new National Institutes of Health director, Monica Bertagnolli, said it’s a “failure”…
What health policies could hitch a ride on a spending bill?
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STAT+: Medicare’s new pay boost for primary care is angering specialists
WASHINGTON — Doctors are staring down a cut to their Medicare pay next year, and…
Opinion: State and local governments across the country are sidelining science
In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. After four…
To fight bias against people with addiction, White House calls for ‘recovery-friendly’ workplaces
The Biden administration on Thursday issued a call to action for the nation’s employers to…
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Senator floats new models to manage costs of weight loss drugs like Ozempic
WASHINGTON — With Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Ozempic hitting blockbuster sales and a new rival…
Republicans divided over financial crisis in Medicare
WASHINGTON — Republicans angling for the party’s presidential nomination on Wednesday grappled with the reality…
STAT+: Senate panel clears PBM reforms, safety-net hospital payments
WASHINGTON — A prominent Senate panel on Wednesday passed a new package of health policy…
STAT+: FDA’s Califf wants to get the public as excited about life expectancy as cures
WASHINGTON — It’s easy to get people worked up about cures, but they don’t seem…
Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights
COLUMBUS — Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion…
STAT+: FDA’s Woodcock, other experts highlight persistent issues plaguing pharma, biotech in the wake of Covid-19
WASHINGTON — Current and former government officials proffered a clear eyed, and often depressing, take…
Senate confirms NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli
Longtime cancer doctor Monica Bertagnolli is finally heading to the National Institutes of Health director’s…
Sen. Bernie Sanders moves toward another hearing with pharma CEOs
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Your morning biotech news roundup
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STAT+: Government looks to tinker with new caps on Medicare Advantage broker payments
The federal government is proposing to rein in health insurance companies that entice brokers with…
STAT+: HHS secretaries Becerra, Azar face off on lowering drug prices
WASHINGTON — Two very different health secretaries took the stage Monday to defend their presidents’…
STAT+: Democrats push government to police algorithms in Medicare Advantage
House Democrats are raising concerns with the Biden administration that Medicare Advantage plans need better…
Shrinking COVID vaccine sales has Moderna course-correcting
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STAT+: Medicare proceeds with plan to claw back hospital funds after Supreme Court decision
WASHINGTON — Medicare officials are moving forward with a plan to claw back money from certain…
STAT+: Key Senate panel to consider PBM, drug pricing reform package
WASHINGTON — A key Senate panel announced it will consider more policies to regulate pharmacy…
Senate bill would permanently extend Covid-era rules on telehealth addiction treatment
A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced a bill that would permanently allow health…
Sarepta’s disappointing data put the FDA in a difficult spot
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In new order on AI, Biden is scrambling to catch up to emerging risks in health care
President Joe Biden ordered the nation’s leading health agencies on Monday to develop a plan…
Senate committee plans Nov. 8 vote on wide-ranging health care package
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee plans to vote Nov. 8 on legislation that includes…
Paying for Covid pills will soon shift to insurers
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is slowly shifting millions of Covid-19 treatments to private insurers…
STAT+: ARPA-H head Renee Wegrzyn on the agency’s new Cambridge hub and plans for cancer research
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — In an area long known as an epicenter of innovation and investment…
STAT+: ALS patients support bill that could help patients with other rare diseases
WASHINGTON — A month after advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted against…
Breaking down House Speaker Mike Johnson’s health care plan
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STAT+: The health care issue Democrats can’t solve: hospital reform
WASHINGTON — Democrats unilaterally drove major reforms to the health insurance and the pharmaceutical industries…
Senate committee advances Biden’s NIH nominee Monica Bertagnolli
A Senate health panel on Wednesday voted to send President Biden’s nominee to lead the…