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A proposed class action suit accused the pharmacy of discriminating against people with disabilities when being asked to fill high-dose opioid prescriptions. In other news, five doctors pled guilty in a pain pill scheme in West Virginia.
The lawsuit had claimed the drugmaker had concealed problems during development of its covid vaccine. Separately, in Europe, regulators have cleared Pfizer's updated booster shots targeting later covid variants, amid news 17 million Europeans got long covid early in the pandemic.
The federal government will give financial support for mobile crisis intervention teams that help when police aren't needed. Meanwhile, health officials have confirmed that a California resident died from monkeypox.
GeekWire says the annual Goalkeepers Report is typically upbeat, but this year's report covering efforts to reach six of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is grim reading. AP notes Bill Gates says technological progress could help solve world hunger, where food aid can no longer help.
Five drugmakers had proposed generic versions of Gilead's HIV and hepatitis B drugs and are now licensed to sell them from around 2031 onward. Also in the news: Medicare advantage star ratings, and more.
"You don’t want to be the person who gives it to your grandma," White House covid czar Ashish Jha said. In other news, U.S. researchers have found an antibody that neutralizes all variants of covid. The results are similar to research reported last week from Israel's Tel Aviv University.
The application from pharma firm Perrigo will be discussed Nov. 18, and could lead to the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill sales. Contrastingly, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he plans to introduce legislation to ban abortion on a national level.
Patients taking Amgen's Lumakras went 5.6 months without their cancers getting worse, compared with 4.5 months for patients taking the chemotherapy docetaxel, the Wall Street Journal reported, and 25% of patients who took Lumakras lived for at least one year without their cancers getting worse, compared with 10% of those using docetaxel.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Monday to encourage biotech production and research in the U.S. as part of a strategy to compete with China in this space. Afterwards, speaking at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston, the president urged the nation to redouble efforts to eradicate cancer — a goal he called “bold, ambitious, and I might add, completely doable.”
The three-day work stoppage impacting 15 hospitals in the Minneapolis and Duluth areas is the largest private-sector nurses strike in U.S. history. Workers want a 30% pay increase and bolstered staffing. Hospital executives say those demands are too expensive and unrealistic.
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Oregon has among the highest rates of problem drinking in the U.S., and rising deaths, The New York Times reports, even as some efforts to curb excessive drinking have fallen aside. Meanwhile, in California, an effort to expand services offered by optometrists is controversial.
The New York Times reports America's high child poverty rate set it apart from other rich nations but that efforts to expand safety nets have driven a 59% drop in child poverty since 1993. Also: the baby formula shortage, stress in pregnancy, news on nutrition, and more.
NPR says that in the first month since launch, 988 has seen a 45% increase in overall call volume and other text-based contacts, with the latter demonstrating enormous growth. Meanwhile, the U.S. will reportedly dedicate $35 million to boost 988 efforts for Native Americans.
The type of threat wasn't specified, the Boston Globe explains, but two weeks ago the hospital faced a bomb threat. Reports say hospital staff involved with treating transgender children have also been harassed. Other media outlets cover nursing home and nursing staff strikes, and health worker cuts.
A new AP-NORC poll shows a majority of Americans say health care is not handled well in the country; women as well as Black and Hispanic Americans are particularly critical. Medicare decisions on doctors' pay, Medicare drug cost caps, the Blue Cross antitrust deal, and more are also in the news.
Wegrzyn, President Biden's choice for the role, formerly worked as a scientist at DARPA. Separately, the Boston Globe reports on efforts by local power brokers to attract the new new health research agency to be based in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, in FDA news, funding negotiations are heating up.
Organization leaders from 24 states met in California on Friday to discuss how to copy the Golden State's success across the nation. Meanwhile, some conservative Republicans are softening their rhetoric on abortion.
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