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Opinion: Biopharma leaders helped save democracy. Now what?

18.01.2023

The rule of law must be upheld for free societies and free markets to flourish, and only a well-functioning democracy offers the levers for rational majorities to prevail. Americans support …

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Coronavirus

Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down

13.01.2023

WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, is exiting the Biden administration this month. His departure comes as the …

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Coronavirus / Health

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

11.01.2023

WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of terrorism, and Americans are still taking off their shoes in airports more than twenty years …

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Coronavirus

Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee

10.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with a vastly different mandate, reflecting GOP frustration with the federal pandemic response. The revamped, 12-person …

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Health

Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts

06.01.2023

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons to explain their poor hepatitis C treatment rates, after a STAT investigation revealing that more …

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Biotech / Pharma

FDA, Biogen, and an Alzheimer’s drug approval: 8 key takeaways from congressional investigation

29.12.2022

Congressional investigators sorted through more than 500,000 pages of documents from the Food and Drug Administration and Biogen to chronicle how a controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug was approved, and how …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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Health

Amid dire maternal mortality rates, Congress falls short on Medicaid postpartum care

20.12.2022

Last week, the state of Texas issued a long-awaited report that found at least 118 women in the state died from causes related to pregnancy in 2019. Most of those …

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Coronavirus

Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness

19.12.2022

WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics. …

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