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Opinion: Former HHS secretaries: Congress should adopt site-neutral payments for health care

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Despite our different approaches, we believe that addressing health care costs is a truly bipartisan issue. To be serious about creating access for people to the best possible care, that care must be affordable for patients and taxpayers. People should pay for the care they receive, not for the sign on the door.

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Opinion: People like me with bipolar disorder must help shape research and clinical care

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Known throughout history by many names, like depression, mania, manic-depressive illness, or psychosis, the disorder is common and closely tied to that which makes us human: our thinking, our behavior, our hopes, and our ambitions.

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Opinion: The next Census could undercount the number of disabled Americans by 20 million

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About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. That is because many disabled people will no longer be counted as disabled by the new questions the Census is proposing to use starting in 2025 with the annual American Community Survey (ACS).

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Amid another rise in cases, Covid’s new normal has set in

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Among people who are still paying attention to Covid-19 , there’s been a recent surge — not just in viral activity but in the concern once again being paid to Covid. There’s debate in some places about whether or not to resume wearing masks. People are worrying about whether the latest subvariant, BA.2.86

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STAT+: A spending frenzy on obesity drugs

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  Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Today we have some developments about Novo Nordisk’s insulin business, a side of the company that people don’t really talk about anymore, and some news about their GLP-1 business, a side that people can’t stop talking about.

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Opinion: STAT+: Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson: The right way to bring AI into pharma

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Many people have criticized pharma companies for being slow to adopt AI. Indeed, some CEOs I talk to are concerned about too widely adopting AI, citing fears of unknown threats. But we have to be thoughtful about how we use AI. The exchange of data in real time greatly accelerates and enhances the business operations.

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Opinion: The complicated connections between weight loss drugs and mental health

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As an endocrinologist (Jody) and a psychiatrist (Karen), we know this connection better than most people, so we have long checked in with each other to help our mutual patients. Mental illness can cause or worsen obesity, and obesity can cause or worsen mental illness.

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