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South Dakota plans major ramp-up of hepatitis C treatment in prison

10.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The head of South Dakota prisons is pledging to dramatically overhaul how the system treats hepatitis C in the coming year. South Dakota’s new hepatitis C policy for …

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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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Hundreds of incarcerated people are dying of hep C — even though we have a simple cure

15.12.2022

FALLS CITY, Neb. — John Ritchie shouldn’t have died. He knew he had hepatitis C. And he knew, too, about the simple, once-daily pills that could fully cure him of …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here’s hoping

02.11.2022

As states begin to receive money from the multitude of lawsuits and settlements the opioid makers and distributors have agreed to pay, the number of overdose deaths in the country …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Allocate opioid settlement dollars to real addiction-ending solutions

27.10.2022

The crisis of opioid overdose deaths that sparked the multitude of lawsuits leading to a historic settlement continues to rage, with overdose deaths at an all-time high despite heightened national …

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First Opinion

Opinion: How states can act to limit drug price increases, saving employers and workers billions

20.10.2022

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 mandates that Medicare-covered drug sales will be protected from price increases that exceed inflation, but the mechanics of this “inflation penalty” have generated some …

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Pharma

‘Window dressing’: Eli Lilly’s after-the-fact statement on Indiana’s abortion law sends a disingenuous message

11.08.2022

Talk about a delayed reaction. For weeks, a coterie of consumers and businesses tried to convince Indiana lawmakers not to proceed with a bill that would make the state the …

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Pharma

Drugmaker Teva latest to settle opioid lawsuits nationally

27.07.2022

Drugmaker Teva announced Tuesday that it has agreed to contribute more than $4.3 billion in cash and medications to settle lawsuits in the state and local governments and Native American …

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Coronavirus / Health

Prisons didn’t prescribe much Paxlovid or other Covid-19 treatments, even when they got the drugs

05.05.2022

Federal prisons used just a fraction of the antiviral drugs they were allocated to keep incarcerated people from getting seriously ill or dying of Covid-19, according to new internal records …

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