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The court, in a unanimous ruling, ruled that companies making biosimilars don't have to wait an extra six months after gaining Food and Drug Administration approval before selling the drugs.
Bloomberg gives a quick rundown of what's happening with the exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, two insurers are jumping back into the marketplace in Arizona.
The nearly 2 million people who canceled their plans through the exchanges reflect the normal up and down of the program and does not reflect the politics of the moment, experts say.
The proposal would rewrite major parts of the Affordable Care Act for the state, and needs approval from the administration.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he could accept the phaseout of the health law's Medicaid expansion if Republicans writing the bill add more money for states and make the pull back more gradual. In other Medicaid news, a look at how states are remolding the program for low-income residents, concerns among nonprofit insurers about proposed changes to the law, and developments in Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio.
Patient and industry groups are organizing rallies, ad campaigns and lobbying efforts while conservatives are trying to make sure the health law's taxes are repealed.
"[T]his is not the best way to do health care, but it’s the way we’re having to do it,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Republicans, though, are trying to rein in expectations about when the vote will come.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Opinion writers parse a variety of issues related to the Affordable Care Act, the American Health Care Act, Medicaid's ups and downs, the future of single-payer proposals and other health policy developments.
Media outlets report on health-related news from Georgia, Ohio, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas.
News outlets report on these and a variety of other state-related mental health developments.
Officers can still work in the building, but the Health Department has advised them to avoid taking showers there.
These drugs — nootropics — are said to improve memory, attention, creativity and motivation. But researchers say there is no evidence that the drugs help in the long-run. In other public health news: baby boxes, genital mutilation, day passes at psychiatric hospitals, gene editing, and cancer.
Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan says there are people who go to war and don't see what officers saw inside Pulse.
Health officials say that the risk of contracting the virus in the Americas is receding, but that there is still a danger. Meanwhile, researchers look for easy, low-cost Zika testing as well as at the health impact of pesticides being used to combat mosquitoes.
Departments across the country are taking on different ways to help fight the crisis that don't involve mass arrests. In other news, the drug epidemic is causing death rates to spike in the U.S.
Meanwhile, in other health IT news, health care leaders focused on ways to bring state-of-the-art technology to patients and on how health care providers should focus on the nexus of data and medicine at the University of Miami’s fourth-annual Latin American Innovation Forum.
Both states that expanded the health care program for low-income residents and states that didn't are looking for creative ways to keep costs down. News outlets also report on the American Medical Association meeting and doctors' views of the Medicaid expansion, a Missouri hospital study and prospects for an extension of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program.
President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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