STAT+: White House launches permanent pandemic office
WASHINGTON – The White House on Friday launched its pandemic preparedness office, half a year…
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STAT+: Bernie Sanders wants to replace drug patents with prizes for breakthrough medicines
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will finally get a study of his proposal to…
White House announces new plan to address the growing threat of xylazine in overdose crisis
The White House on Tuesday unveiled a new plan to address the growing presence of…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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….
Opinion: Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams: Prioritize new antivirals for Covid
The U.S. Covid-19 Public Health Emergency declaration may have ended, but the virus remains. Now is…
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…
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+: Top federal lobbyist at PhRMA leaves
WASHINGTON — The top federal lobbyist for the brand drug lobby PhRMA is leaving, two…
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…
White House ‘naloxone summit’ omitting prominent advocates for lower costs
The invite list for the White House’s upcoming “summit” on naloxone pricing and accessibility has…
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+: Democrats blast Biden administration over Alzheimer’s drug plans
WASHINGTON — Ahead of a major Food and Drug Administration meeting on a new Alzheimer’s…
‘Tantamount to extortion:’ Merck sues U.S. government over Medicare negotiation program
WASHINGTON — Merck on Tuesday sued to stop the federal government from implementing a new…
Biden plans to pick Mandy Cohen to lead CDC
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to tap longtime federal and state health official Mandy Cohen…
STAT+: Debt ceiling deal could mean cancer, disease research cuts, advocates warn
WASHINGTON — Researchers and health care advocates are warning that the debt ceiling deal would…
STAT+: Republicans want to crack down on pricey health regulations, but there are major loopholes
WASHINGTON — At first glance, the debt ceiling deal that Republicans struck with the White…
STAT+: With Fat Joe concerts and Super Bowl ads, a cadre of billionaires is mounting an unorthodox campaign against hospitals
WASHINGTON — At a waterfront concert in one of this city’s swankiest neighborhoods, rappers Busta…
Opinion: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?
For psychiatrists, Donald Trump’s third run for the presidency means that we’ll once again face…
STAT+: Congress highlighted a chemo drug’s price to blast PBMs — but it’s not a PBM issue
WASHINGTON — Congress blasted drug middlemen at a hearing Tuesday, with multiple lawmakers pointing to…
FDA budget battles, prisons’ sobering Covid response & BIO’s CEO search is on
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STAT+: New Biden science agency ARPA-H launches first program, targeting bone regrowth
WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar science agency tasked with slashing through research bureaucracy will start its…
Depression hits new high among Americans, per survey
WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of American adults are depressed, a 10% surge from…
STAT+: Biden drug czar to summon naloxone makers to White House to discuss pricing
WASHINGTON — The White House is summoning naloxone manufacturers for a roundtable focused on the…
Biden nominates Monica Bertagnolli to head NIH
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday officially announced that he would nominate National Cancer Institute…
Opinion: Proposed rules to protect health data in an era of abortion bans fall short
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it effectively rescinded national protections of reproductive…
STAT+: Telework helps FDA compete for scientists. What if it’s no longer an option?
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration needs to hire scores of in-demand scientists, and…
Who’s in charge of the White House Covid response after the emergency ends?
WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t quite ready to launch its new pandemic response office…
STAT+: Q&A: Sen. Sanders on insulin costs and his committee’s generic drug kerfuffle
WASHINGTON — Wednesday’s Senate hearing on high costs for insulin “is not the end” of…
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to step down
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, announced Friday that…
STAT+: Biden’s pick to lead NIH stares down an increasingly political litany of questions
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s presumed pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli,…
Biden officials propose slate of Medicaid transparency changes
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday rolled out proposals to set national standards for…
STAT+: Medicare official insists drug price negotiation will consider value of drugs
WASHINGTON — When Medicare starts negotiating drug prices, it will take into account how important…
Biden to tap head of National Cancer Institute to lead NIH
President Biden will nominate oncologist Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Cancer Institute, to lead…
The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it
WASHINGTON — The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long…
STAT+: PhRMA execs paint grim picture of industry under Medicare drug price negotiation
WASHINGTON — Executives for the brand drug industry’s biggest lobbying group painted a grim picture…
Supreme Court pauses new limits on abortion pill, pending further review next week
Access to the abortion pill mifepristone will remain unchanged until next Wednesday, after a U.S….
The Biden administration will hang on to some Covid pandemic emergency powers
WASHINGTON — Even though the Biden administration is ending its highest-profile Covid-19 emergency declaration next…
White House designates xylazine, better known as ‘tranq,’ as an emerging drug threat
The White House on Wednesday issued an unprecedented warning about xylazine, the veterinary tranquilizer increasingly…
White House plots strategy to counter abortion pill ruling
WASHINGTON — White House officials warned on Wednesday that access to nearly any medication is…
STAT+: Just how big of a pay bump do hospitals need from Medicare next year?
The federal government is proposing to give hospitals a 2.8% raise in their Medicare payments…
Where is PhRMA in the mifepristone debate?
WASHINGTON — A judge’s decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of an…
STAT+: Wall Street embraces health insurers after scoring Medicare Advantage payment win
Health insurance companies that participate in Medicare Advantage will retain billions of extra taxpayer dollars…
Where is the White House’s new pandemic response office?
WASHINGTON — In the wake of a pandemic that claimed more than 1 million American lives,…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage plans will have to stop denying required care, federal officials say
The Biden administration is moving forward with proposals that would crack down on Medicare Advantage…
STAT+: Biden administration goes easy on Medicare Advantage insurers after intense industry lobbying
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration backed off some of its plans to rein in billions…