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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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Coronavirus / Health

‘Worse than what we thought’: New data reveals deeper problems with the Bureau of Prisons’ Covid response

23.05.2023

WASHINGTON — The incarcerated people at Federal Medical Center Devens should have been some of the first to receive the Covid vaccines, back when they first came out in December …

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Health

Biden drug czar: ‘All options are on the table’ for expanding methadone access

18.05.2023

WASHINGTON — The federal government is aggressively exploring ways to increase access to methadone, a key Biden administration official told STAT. Methadone, a common addiction medication, is the most effective …

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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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Health

Federal judges question FDA authority in abortion pill hearing

17.05.2023

A federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine the future of a commonly used abortion pill, opening a line of questioning centered around the drug’s …

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Health

Depression hits new high among Americans, per survey

17.05.2023

WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of American adults are depressed, a 10% surge from nearly a decade ago, according to the latest Gallup survey. The data come as 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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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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Coronavirus / Health

Who’s in charge of the White House Covid response after the emergency ends?

09.05.2023

WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t quite ready to launch its new pandemic response office for a neat handoff at the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, White House …

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