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Licensing deals cut by UC Berkeley and Massachusetts’ Broad Institute may be limiting the potentially lie-saving applications of this gene-editing technology, according to assertions made by intellectual property experts in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
The issue has been swatted down repeatedly since the health law went into effect, but after moderates ousted several conservatives in last fall's elections, a legislative panel is scheduled to vote on a measure today. The committee's chairman, Rep. Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, says it will be close. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Ohio, Alabama and California.
The lawsuit, which was unsealed Thursday after a five-year investigation by the Department of Justice, suggests the company may have improperly collected "hundreds of millions" of dollars by claiming patients were sicker than they actually were.
A proposal by Republican Reps. Tom Cole of Oklahoma and Sanford Bishop of Georgia would get rid of a "grandfather” clause that requires companies selling cigars, pipe tobacco, and vapor products such as e-cigarettes after Feb. 15, 2007 to disclose their ingredients and prove that their products meet the applicable public health standards set by the law.
Democrats are calling the move a "backdoor attempt to restrict access" to abortion.
During her confirmation hearing, lawmakers also grilled health care consultant and CMS nominee Seema Verma over her potential conflicts of interest.
The cost of caring for people with chronic, serious health conditions is immense and how to pay for it has plagued both parties for years. Republicans are touting high-risk pools as a way to do it, but past attempts have not proven successful. Meanwhile, Vox reporter Sarah Kliff talks about where everything stands after this week's general upheaval.
House Speaker Paul Ryan met with rank-and-file Republicans to review a plan to dismantle and replace the health law on Thursday. Ryan told reporters leadership will introduce the legislation after the House's upcoming recess.
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Outlets report on news from Arizona, Connecticut, California, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, in Florida, Republicans are pushing to repeal the state's certificate-of-need regulations, a Kansas House committee blocks a bill that would allow the Kansas University Health System to ban concealed firearms and the Florida-based Nemours Children's Hospital awaits state regulators' decision about its new heart and lung transplant center.
Other news stories related to public health cover Zika, the status of a canceled climate change summit, the benefits of Vitamin D on the cold and flu, depression in new dads, cardiovascular disease, ADHD and more.
The key differences in the MRIs were in how a child’s brain grew in the first year of life. Meanwhile, The Washington Post fact checks President Donald Trump's claim that the number of autism cases in the country is spiking.
Researchers found that doctors they identified as “high-intensity” prescribers sent one in four patients home with opioids. “Low-intensity” prescribers gave opioids to one in 14 patients. The patients who saw a high-intensity prescriber were 30 percent more likely to become long-term users.
In those states, lawmakers are aiming to cut tens of millions of dollars received by the reproductive health organization through Medicaid. Also, abortion-related legislation advances in Indiana, Arizona and Texas.
In 2015 the disease claimed double the amount of lives it did in 2000, but promising treatment after promising treatment fail in trials.
Meanwhile, in Maryland, health care advocates and officials are pushing for drug affordability legislation.
The Broad Institute, a research center affiliated with MIT and Harvard, retains more than a dozen patents it has already been granted on the use of the CRISPR technique to modify DNA in the cells of humans, animals and plants.
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