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Coronavirus / Health

CDC comes under fire for inadequate information about its Covid response

07.06.2023

WASHINGTON — Republicans aren’t impressed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s reorganization plan, or its efforts to explain it. The embattled public health agency late Tuesday sent answers …

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Coronavirus

House Republicans demand career scientist explain pathogen research

31.05.2023

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on federal agencies’ pandemic response with an unprecedented move: interrogating a career poxvirus scientist’s infectious disease work. In a letter to federal …

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Biotech / Coronavirus / Pharma

FDA budget battles, prisons’ sobering Covid response & BIO’s CEO search is on

23.05.2023

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis. Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. House committee sets up for budget fight UPDATE: …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Fix the rural physician shortage by expanding support for resident training

18.05.2023

As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with pride as our recent graduates prepare to start their internships. But that pride is tempered …

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Health Tech

Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials

18.05.2023

Senators warned the country’s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on Wednesday that they must abide by Medicare’s coverage rules and cannot rely on algorithms to deny care that …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: How ‘Lessons From the Covid War’ falls short

17.05.2023

The stream of books about the government response to the pandemic that began with Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” has just yielded its most important product to date. “Lessons From the …

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Pharma

AstraZeneca is third member to leave PhRMA in five months

16.05.2023

WASHINGTON — AstraZeneca has decided to leave the brand drug lobbying powerhouse PhRMA halfway through the year, the organization said. The exit is the group’s third in five months, as …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Compounding pharmacies offer a fix for shortages of essential drugs

15.05.2023

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, gravely ill patients began to fill America’s hospitals. Hospitals ran short of essential treatment medications and were unable to source those drugs …

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Coronavirus

Key House Democrat demands NIH answer for pace of long Covid research

11.05.2023

WASHINGTON — A powerful Democratic lawmaker is interrogating the National Institutes of Health over its slow progress in addressing long Covid, citing a recent STAT investigation into the agency’s lack …

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