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These innovation grants that Partners plans to award are designed as part of an effort to commercialize research done in its labs and hospitals. Meanwhile, in other news, in an effort to gain more accountability for workplace wellness programs, employee health scorecards are getting attention.
Walgreens said the blood testing startup "must immediately cease sending any clinical laboratory tests" to the company's Palo Alto lab, which is facing federal scrutiny for deficient practices that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services say pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.
Merck has not listed the price of the drug yet, but the extra option could help bring down prices on the expensive treatments. In California, Gilead's hepatitis C drug Sovaldi has cost the state $387.5 million. But a ballot initiative to limit the high price of prescription drugs will let voters weigh in on this issue this November.
President Barack Obama's speech to the congressional Democrats on Thursday touted the results of their accomplishments, including the 18 million people who gained health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. But the much-diminished audience showed the political cost the Democrats have paid for their support to the president.
President Barack Obama has called for the federal government to cover the full funding of Medicaid expansion for three years for any states that move to expand the program. That would give them the same benefits that states that moved earlier received. Also in the news are reports on expansion debates in New Hampshire and Idaho.
Federal officials say sign-ups are going strong in the final hours of open enrollment and remind consumers that failing to get a policy could result in a hefty fine.
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News outlets report on health care developments in California, Virginia, Minnesota, North Carolina, Connecticut and Florida.
The lawmakers say a complaint system will not be in place when private oversight is expected to start. In addition, outlets report on Medicaid news in Kansas, Florida, Alaska, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Excessive fundraising and marketing have former employees questioning if the charity has lost its way.
A study of 15 years of malpractice cases that resulted in payments to patients found that one percent of physicians accounts for 32 percent of all paid claims and if a doctor pays out once, the chances are good he or she will pay again.
Meanwhile in New Hampshire, a conservative group tries to label Republican candidate John Kasich as an "Obama Republican" due to his Medicaid actions as Ohio governor. And on the Democratic side of the race, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that Sen. Bernie Sanders' universal health care plan is unrealistic.
The organization immediately launched a legal strategy around cooperating fully with prosecutors. Meanwhile, Republicans are not giving up the fight against reproductive heath organization anytime soon.
As a case of the mosquito-born infection is confirmed in California, experts say that the U.S. must prepare for a potential outbreak. While the virus poses little threat to most people, it is believed to be linked to rare birth defects when a pregnant woman contracts it.
Meanwhile, news outlets report on depression screening for new moms, the benefits of pediatricians teaching parenting skills and President Barack Obama's call for $12 billion to feed low-income children when school is out of session.
Hailed as a landmark piece of work, the new study identifies a set of gene variants that increases the risk of schizophrenia. Researches say the variants affect synaptic pruning, a process important to how neurons talk to one another, which goes awry in schizophrenia.
In other news, Novartis blamed its weaker-than-expected sales on the pace at which the U.S. government approves new drugs and insurers choose to cover them. Meanwhile, a major Johnson & Johnson shareholder is pushing the management to separate into three divisions.
Attorney General Maura Healey, in a letter to Gilead's chairman and chief executive, called on the company to adjust its pricing structure to make the two drugs more widely available.
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