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Los amigos de un joven muerto por envenenamiento por fentanilo impulsan una ley estatal para que estudiantes de secundaria puedan llevar Narcan en sus mochilas sin riesgo de ser castigados.
How a Friend鈥檚 Death Turned Colorado Teens Into Anti-Overdose Activists
High school students in Colorado are pushing for a change they say is necessary to combat fentanyl poisoning: ensuring students can’t get in trouble for carrying the overdose reversal drug naloxone wherever they go, including at school.
What the Health? From 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News: The Struggle Over Who Gets the Last Word
As science skepticism pervades politics, the Supreme Court will soon consider two cases that seek to define the power of 鈥渆xperts.鈥 Meanwhile, abortion opponents are laying out plans for how Donald Trump, if reelected as president, could effectively curtail abortion even in states where it remains legal. Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Samantha Liss, who reported and wrote the latest 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 feature about a husband and wife who got billed for preventive care that should have been fully covered.
Records Show Publix Opioid Sales Grew Even as Addiction Crisis Prompted Other Chains鈥 Pullback
As national prescription drug distributors and pharmacies restricted the flow of oxycodone and other painkillers in response to the growing opioid crisis, Florida鈥檚 most popular grocery store ramped up its sales and distribution of the highly addictive drugs, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis of federal data.
The FTC Escalates Biden鈥檚 Fight Against Drug Prices
It鈥檚 daggers out at the Federal Trade Commission in its fight against anticompetitive practices in health care. This past year, it has issued more stringent guidelines to block and discourage hospital mergers, and it investigated practices by middlemen in the drug supply chain. Now drug manufacturers themselves are in the agency鈥檚 crosshairs. In November, the FTC challenged the validity of more […]
What the Health Care Sector Was Selling at the J.P. Morgan Confab
When bankers and investors flocked to San Francisco for the largest gathering of health care industry investors, the buzz was all about artificial intelligence, the next hit weight-loss drug, and new opportunities to make money through nonprofit hospitals.
Trump Official Who OK鈥檇 Drugs From Canada Chairs Company Behind Florida鈥檚 Import Plan
Alex Azar advanced Canadian drug importation as Donald Trump鈥檚 secretary of Health and Human Services. Now he chairs the board of a company managing Florida鈥檚 importation program.
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Alex Azar鈥檚 Unusual Spin Through the Revolving Door
Washington鈥檚 infamous revolving door took an unusual turn for former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar spent about a decade with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. before coming to the nation鈥檚 capital to lead HHS in the Trump administration. But in September 2020, just a couple of months before former president Donald […]
Journalists Track Medical Device Malfunctions, Opioid Settlement Payments, and Abortion Bans
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News and California Healthline staffers made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
Pacientes con narcolepsia enfrentan una doble pesadilla: escasez de medicamentos y estigma
Se estima que una de cada 2,000 personas en los Estados Unidos vive con narcolepsia (m谩s de 160,000 en todo el pa铆s).
Patients With Narcolepsy Face a Dual Nightmare of Medication Shortages and Stigma
It’s been more than a year since the FDA declared a national shortage of Adderall, and it鈥檚 affecting more than just patients with ADHD. Those with narcolepsy, a much rarer condition, are often treated with the same medication. Without it, they’re often unable to drive or function as usual.
A New Test Could Save Arthritis Patients Time, Money, and Pain. But Will It Be Used?
Stories of chronic pain, drug-hopping, and insurance meddling are all too common among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Precision medicine offers new hope.
The Market for Biosimilars Is Funky. The Industry Thinks PBMs Are To Blame
Over the past year there鈥檚 been movement to rein in the three big PBMs, which face little regulation though they help set drug prices and drug choices for 80 percent of Americans and their doctors. The House voted Dec. 11, 320-71, for legislation that would require the PBMs to change some of the ways they […]
Colorado culpa a Biden y a farmac茅uticas por retrasar importaciones de medicamentos de Canad谩
Los consumidores estadounidenses pagan algunos de los precios m谩s altos del mundo por medicamentos de marca. En Canad谩, el gobierno controla los precios.
Colorado Blames Biden Team and Drugmakers for Delaying Canadian Imports
Colorado officials say they haven鈥檛 been able to stand up a program to import drugs from Canada because of drugmaker opposition 鈥 and the Biden administration鈥檚 inaction.
Colorado Says Drug Industry Blocked Its Canada Dreams 鈥 And Biden Hasn鈥檛 Helped
Colorado鈥檚 leaders had grand plans to import cheaper medicines from Canada, after the Trump administration issued rules in 2020 allowing states to try it. But officials in Denver say they鈥檝e been stymied by opposition from drugmakers 鈥 as well as the Biden administration鈥檚 inaction on the policy. That鈥檚 according to a Dec. 1 report we […]
Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano
Florida鈥檚 Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and California鈥檚 Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will square off in a first-of-its-kind debate on Nov. 30. 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News compared the political rivals鈥 health care positions, showing how their policies have helped 鈥 or hindered 鈥 the health of their states鈥 residents.
La atenci贸n de salud, en el centro del debate entre DeSantis y Newsom
El candidato presidencial republicano Ron DeSantis y el gobernador dem贸crata Gavin Newsom 鈥攔ivales pol铆ticos y representantes de la Am茅rica roja y azul鈥 se enfrentar谩n en un debate sin precedentes el 30 de noviembre en Georgia.
Evolving Overdose Crisis Shakes Previously Effective Treatments
The prevalence of synthetic drugs is undercutting a previously effective and widely embraced opioid use disorder treatment tactic. Now, the model pioneered in Vermont a decade ago and adopted at sites nationwide, especially in hard-to-reach rural areas, is being forced to evolve.
