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Health Care, Industry

New FDA-approved drug makes severe food allergies less life-threatening

February 17, 2024

Via: ArsTechnica

Living with food allergies can be a fraught existence. There is no cure, and the standard management is to be ever vigilant of everything you eat and have an emergency shot of epinephrine constantly handy in case an accidental ingestion […]


Health Care, Industry

Yellen says current US economic growth ‘vindicates’ Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic stimulus spending

January 17, 2024

Via: Washington's Top News

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pushing back against Republican criticism of the Democrats’ big coronavirus pandemic response package and making an election year pitch that the current state of the U.S. “vindicates” the steps taken in 2021 to “get our […]


Health Care, Industry

Georgia expanded public health insurance. Few have signed up.

December 26, 2023

Via: POLITICO

A GOP experiment forcing low-income people to work to qualify for public health insurance benefits is stumbling in Georgia. The state’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, expected 31,000 Georgians to sign up in the first year of the program, which started […]


Health Care, Industry

Planned Parenthood received $90 million in PPP loans during COVID-19 pandemic

December 12, 2023

Via: Fox News

Planned Parenthood affiliates received $90 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans meant for small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the Government Accountability office (GAO) released Tuesday morning. The PPP loans were designed to […]


Health Care, Industry

More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail

November 20, 2023

Via: Washington's Top News

Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online for home delivery. The U.S. government is offering to send another round of four at-home virus tests ahead of the typical surge in cases during the winter holiday season. Anyone who did […]


Health Care, Industry

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to sign bill boosting Medicaid subsidies for hospitals, ambulances

October 19, 2023

Via: Fox News

Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign budget-related legislation passed Wednesday to boost Medicaid subsidies for Pennsylvania’s hospitals and ambulance services, provisions that have been stuck in a wider monthslong stalemate. The bill headed to Shapiro’s desk after passing the House 199-4, […]


Health Care, Industry

COVID antiviral Paxlovid to see price increase following 400% vaccine hike

October 18, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than fourfold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access […]


Defense, Health Care, Industry

Some GOP candidates want to use force against Mexico to stop fentanyl. Experts say that won’t work

October 9, 2023

Via: Washington's Top News

Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be shot dead. Nikki Haley promises to send American special forces into Mexico. Vivek Ramaswamy has accused Mexico’s leader of treating drug cartels as his “sugar daddy” and says […]


Health Care, Industry

US to again offer free COVID tests ahead of respiratory virus season

September 21, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

Americans will again have an opportunity to receive free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the US government, with orders beginning next Monday, September 25, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. Households will be eligible to receive four free rapid tests that […]


Health Care, Industry

Biden’s Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he’s not getting much credit

September 15, 2023

Via: Washington's Top News

President Joe Biden is trumpeting Medicare’s new powers to negotiate directly with drugmakers on the cost of prescription medications — but a poll shows that any immediate political boost that Biden gets for enacting the overwhelmingly popular policy may be […]


Health Care, Industry

The CDC faces a dilemma over recommending a new COVID booster for all

September 11, 2023

Via: Government Executive

A small percentage of Americans got the most recent COVID-19 booster shot, and even fewer probably realize the federal government is preparing to recommend yet another shot as early as Tuesday. Until a week or two ago, William Schaffner read […]


Health Care, Industry

FDA cracks down on bogus anti-viral products from Amazon, Walmart

August 25, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

The Food and Drug Administration sent a flurry of warning letters this week over bogus homeopathic products falsely claiming to be antiviral cures—products mostly marketed to children. Amazon, Walmart, and the homeopathic company behind Naturasil products were among those receiving […]


Health Care, Industry

Health insurers are dodging mental health bills, White House says

July 25, 2023

Via: POLITICO

President Joe Biden wants to force health insurance companies to pay for mental health care. Biden administration officials on Tuesday accused insurers of failing to comply with a 2008 law requiring them to put mental health care on the same […]


Health Care, Industry

Biden to crack down on ‘junk’ health insurance

July 6, 2023

Via: POLITICO

The Biden administration on Friday is expected to propose a new regulation cracking down on short-term health insurance plans, five Democrats with knowledge of the matter, who were granted anonymity to discuss the specifics of White House plans, told POLITICO. […]


Health Care, Industry

Caller ID woes contributed to SSA disability backlog

June 27, 2023

Via: Nextgov

In March 2020, the Social Security Administration division that handles disability claims went on an emergency telework system — like much of the rest of the federal government during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. But the Disability Determination […]


Health Care, Industry

Federal government’s $1 billion effort to recruit next generation of doctors at risk

May 12, 2023

Via: Washington's Top News

Thousands of women living in rural, eastern Maryland have few options when they’re looking for someone to deliver their babies. The local hospital doesn’t have an obstetrics doctor on staff so most women in this region, flanked by sprawling farm […]


Health Care, Industry

The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Feds and Contractors Are Officially Ending

May 1, 2023

Via: Government Executive

The White House announced on Monday it’s officially ending the COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal employees and contractors when the public health emergency ends on May 11. Both requirements have already been on pause for a while due to legal […]


Health Care, Industry

Biden signs executive order to improve access to child care

April 18, 2023

Via: Washington's Top News

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase access to child care and improve the work life of caregivers, the White House said Tuesday. But the directives would be funded out of existing […]


Health Care, Industry

No drug is safe: Drug developers decry Texas abortion pill ruling

April 11, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling Friday to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s nearly 23-year-old approval of the safe and effective abortion and miscarriage medication, mifepristone. Although expected, the ruling throws into question the FDA’s authority over […]


Health Care, Industry

Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role

March 22, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

In Congressional testimony Wednesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel unabashedly defended the company’s plans to raise the US list price of its COVID-19 vaccines by more than 400 percent—despite creating the vaccine in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, receiving […]