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The small step has proven to be simple yet effective at a time when patients are at their most vulnerable for another attempt. In other public health news: high blood pressure, diets, positive people, mysterious attacks, anti-aging drugs, and more.
New, Faster Method Of Gene Editing Allows Scientists To Turn T Cells Into ‘Living Cancer Drugs’
“We’re living in an amazing moment in cancer immunotherapies,” said microbiologist Alexander Marson, co-author of the study that appears in Nature. In other news on cancer research, “re-homing” cells are found to improve survival in mice.
Recent laws have now made it legal to breastfeed in public in all 50 states, while others have been passed to strengthen workplace protections for nursing mothers.
The findings come from a congressional investigation into drug distributors and their potential failure to report suspicious prescription activity. The report, in particular, focused on the disparity between what AmerisourceBergen and McKesson flagged. The two distributors shipped nearly identical volumes of opioids to Missouri, but the number of suspicious orders each company reported were nowhere close: 224 from AmerisourceBergen and 16,714 from McKesson.
Millions In Funding For Gun Violence Research Rejected By Republican Appropriators
The lawmakers argued that the CDC is already free to study firearm injuries and that the language would risk further politicizing the spending bill. News on health savings accounts and drugged driving also comes out of Capitol Hill.
Under Pressure, Trump Administration Expected To Streamline Process Of Reuniting Separate Families
To speed up the reunions, the government will no longer insist on fingerprinting all adults in a household where a child will live, or require home visits by a social worker. Meanwhile, tech issues aren’t helping the problems. And lawmakers’ tarrying at a House Appropriations Committee highlights just how hard it will be to pass immigration measures in this Congress.
Where as the GOP has picked one message to focus on for the Supreme Court nomination battle — Brett Kavanaugh’s credentials — Democrats are being pulled in a lot of different directions. “We have a long history of making simple arguments overly complicated, and we have a long history of thinking that we need to compartmentalize our messages for different groups,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “We need to get over both of those addictions if we are going to defeat Brett Kavanaugh.”
The company won glowing praise from the White House after it decided to delay its price hikes, but experts say the move is not going to make a big difference to any of the players involved — including the consumers. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats want more information on the deal between Pfizer and President Donald Trump. And, while the president had success with one company doesn’t mean the rest aren’t going ahead and raising their prices.
Medical Tourism Is A $68 Billion A Year Industry, And More And More Startups Want In
Tech companies are looking to emulate Airbnb or Hotels.com, but for people looking for medical services in a different country. In other industry news: cost control has become a top priority for health system executives, health care acquisitions are proving too expensive for private equity firms, and Amazon wants to nudge even further into the health care landscape.
Attorney General Mike DeWine said he wanted to include a reasonable work requirement for the program, as well as wellness incentives, but that he favors maintaining the expansion. Medicaid news comes out of Texas, Kansas and California as well.
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Why Cities Even In The Same State Can Have Wildly Different Drug Prices
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The clinic directed patients to Planned Parenthood sites in Elkhart and Mishawaka, both cities roughly a two-hour drive north of Fort Wayne.
Lawmakers and Gov. Charlie Baker are looking to build on a March 2016 law aimed at slowing the public health crisis that kills dozens of state residents weekly. News on efforts to curb the epidemic comes from Ohio, also.
Cancer Mortality Rates Would Plummet More Than 20 Percent If Everyone Had Access To Quality Care
There’s already a hint of this happening with the implementation of the health law and the expansion of Medicaid. When patients have access to preventive medicine and screenings, cancer can be caught earlier, improving the chance of a better outcome. In other public health news: medical research, diabetes, anti-depressants, incarceration and the mentally ill, Alzheimer’s, and telehealth.
