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More than 40 percent of the fatal opioid drug overdoses are of people between the ages of 45 to 64. Meanwhile, questions are starting to crop up around the actions of the addiction specialist who was called to help the celebrity the day before his death.
Companies have been marking up the prices of their brand-name drugs before patents expire to eke out the most money they can. But this isn't just affecting those drugs: it is dragging the entire marketplace toward higher costs, because knock-offs set their value just below their brand-name counterparts.
In a medical journal, the physicians say that even after the federal health law, there are "persistent shortcomings of the current health care system."
The regulations ban the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under the age of 18 and require manufacturers to submit their products for approval from the agency. Critics say many of the shops can't afford that process, and others worry that the new rules will push consumers back toward traditional cigarettes.
Oxitec, the company that has developed the solution, will release thousands of modified male mosquitoes a week to mate with females. This will produce offspring that don't survive until adulthood. “It’s not unreasonable to think we might achieve elimination,” says Glen Slade, the company’s head of business development.
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Among other regulations, manufacturers will now have to submit their products for approval by the agency, a process many of the smaller shops can't afford.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
News outlets report on health issues in Iowa, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Missouri, Illinois, California, Maryland and Kansas.
Arizona is the only state that does not participate in the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. In the Alabama legislature, a bill passes to stop prosecutions of pregnant women who use medications prescribed by a doctor.
The tobacco industry has threatened to fight the new laws at the ballot box in November.
"All of the grounds for the termination for Medicaid are entirely bogus and unfounded," says Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. In other news, Oklahoma's Medicaid agency is ending its contract with two Planned Parenthood organizations, a debate over fetal pain heats up in Utah and the Alabama Legislature passes a bill regulating clinics' proximity to schools.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes dropping payment from 6 percent to 2.5 percent of a drug's average sales while adding a flat payment of $16.80 per drug a day. The deadline for comments is May 9, and most of the 600 the agency has received have been negative.
A recently discovered regulatory report finds that contaminated devices are likely to be the source of an outbreak at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. In other public health news, KHN reports on the four things consumers should know about the latest listeria warnings while the Los Angeles Times writes about doctor visit frequency.
Though the cause of death for the celebrity has yet to be determined, a picture of a man in crisis is beginning to emerge from the investigation. Prince's representatives had reached out to a prominent California doctor who specializes in treating addiction, but the help came too late.
An investigation by the Los Angeles Times finds that the 12-hour-relief promise of OxyContin, one of the most abused pharmaceuticals in U.S. history, doesn't hold true for some people. The problem, though, is that leads to withdrawal symptoms, and when the agony is relieved by the next dose, it creates a cycle of pain and euphoria that fosters addiction.
Scientists note that the numbers are from 2014, the first year that the new breakthrough drugs for hepatitis C patients became widely available.
The Justice Department is considering the consolidations of four of the biggest U.S. health insurers - Aetna with Humana, and Anthem with Cigna Corp. -- which would leave the country with only three major insurers, down from five. And its new No. 3 man, Bill Baer, is showing little hesitation to haul companies to court to stop mergers.
It's something they need to prepare for in case of devastation, Gov. Rick Scott will say when he visits Capitol Hill next week to request lawmakers drop the "political grandstanding" and take action on Zika funding.
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