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FTC Sues Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Insulin Prices

The three companies process about 80% of prescriptions in the U.S.

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A Georgia Woman's Death After Delayed Abortion Care Was Preventable. Who's to Blame?

Physicians need more clear guidance and protocols from their healthcare systems

Sep 20, 2024
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U.S. Will Let More People Take Methadone at Home

This is the first update to methadone regulations in 20 years

Sep 20, 2024
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Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease

Risks observed for the akinetic rigid form of the disease, as well as dyskinesia

Sep 20, 2024
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House Staff Unionization Has Come in Waves

Residents' efforts to organize date back some 90 years

Sep 19, 2024
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Docs Accused of Treating Fatal COVID With Peroxide; Cardiologists' Defamation Suit

A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

Sep 19, 2024
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Is Wegovy Shrinking Bariatric Surgery, Too?

GLP-1 drugs have the potential to reduce healthcare costs in unexpected ways

Sep 19, 2024
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RFK Jr. Helping Trump Pick CDC Chief; Excess COVID Death Lingers; Turmoil at 23andMe

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Sep 19, 2024
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California Pledges to Halve Maternal Mortality By Late 2026

But how will the state with the lowest maternal mortality rate do it?

Sep 18, 2024
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California Clarifies Role of CRNAs Amid Scope-of-Practice Clash

Letter says CRNAs can administer anesthesia that's ordered by a physician

Sep 18, 2024
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Experts Debate Whether IRA Provisions Stifle Pharma Innovation at Senate Hearing

Law already caused some drug development programs to be halted, one Senator says

Sep 18, 2024
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Metal Exposure Also Linked to More Coronary Artery Calcium

Impact of contaminant exposure considered on par with traditional risk factors

Sep 18, 2024
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Abortion Ban Deaths; Trans Paper Retraction Fallout; The Payout That Drained Steward

This past week in healthcare investigations

Sep 18, 2024
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Senate Republicans Again Block Legislation to Guarantee Women's Rights to IVF

Democrats say Republicans who insist they support IVF are being hypocritical

Sep 18, 2024
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