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APRIL 12, 2024

In response to controversy, a group of Colorado lawmakers is abandoning a bill that would have required a new state board — which is chartered with setting caps for the cost of medicines — to create exemptions for rare disease drugs.

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MARCH 7, 2024

WASHINGTON — Often, a president’s State of the Union address is a staid affair, with platitudes and calls for bipartisanship and unity.

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MARCH 13, 2024

As a result, other states can now be expected to pursue similar laws. In a setback to the pharmaceutical industry, a U.S. appeals court has upheld an Arkansas law that allows hospitals participating in a controversial federal discount program to ship medicines to certain pharmacies.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In response to strained budgets, a growing number of state and local governments across the U.S. are suing insulin makers and pharmacy benefit managers over claims the companies conspired to illegally drive up prices.

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JULY 19, 2023

Unexpected “facility fees” charged by hospitals have become a growing source of rage for patients, and more states are taking steps to rein them in. The issue cuts through traditional politics, as both liberal and conservative states have made it a priority.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Colorado is pioneering a new way for states to crack down on prescription drug costs, STAT reports. The drug, called Enbrel, costs insurers an average of $46,772 per patient per year, according to 2022 data from the state’s all-payer claims database. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 10, 2023

Abortion is banned in Idaho at all stages of pregnancy, but the governor on Wednesday signed another law making it illegal to provide help within the state’s boundaries to minors seeking an abortion without parental consent. Read the rest…

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JUNE 9, 2023

In 2017, the Massachusetts state Legislature passed a law to ensure ease of access to birth control. The state mandates that plans cover “ medically necessary expenses of diagnosis and treatment of infertility ” if the insurance provides other pregnancy-related benefits. Infertility care has similar protections.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Just this year, state legislatures in 46 states have introduced almost 500 “anti-trans” bills, according to the Trans Legislation Tracker. In this climate, Minnesota is looking to establish itself as a “trans refuge state” — an effort led by state Rep.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Anticipation may be high that Medicare can wring lower prices out of drugmakers, but a handful of states are moving aggressively to slash costs for their residents, a clear sign the battle over affordable medicines in the U.S. is only going to escalate further. “So we should be excited about any move that could decrease costs.”

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MARCH 15, 2023

WASHINGTON — After years of struggling to regulate the drug middlemen that create pharmacy networks, the federal government could lean on states to rein them in — even, potentially, in Medicare. The Department of Justice has until next month to tell a federal appeals court where the administration stands on the issue.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

In the post-Roe landscape, advocates for abortion rights are pinning hopes on telehealth as one way to provide access in states with newly imposed limits. Pro-access states, including Massachusetts last month, have enacted measures to protect providers of abortion care from legal penalties. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Yet in more than a dozen states, tools used to detect the ultra-potent synthetic opioid are still classified as drug paraphernalia — making it a crime to possess or distribute them. Nothing has made the nation’s addiction epidemic more deadly than fentanyl’s infiltration of the drug supply.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

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JUNE 7, 2023

While other states and nations came to the global BIO 2023 convention in Boston this week on the hunt for investors and companies to grow their biotech sectors, Massachusetts has a different problem: It can’t find enough workers to fill positions. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 9, 2023

WASHINGTON — After getting burned by the high-profile implosion of a digital health company, a senior official at Oklahoma’s Medicaid program said the state would be hesitant to buy into similar products again. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 7, 2023

Lawmakers in California may finally offer a raise to the state’s woefully underpaid health care workforce. The legislature is debating a bill introduced by state Sen. María Elena Durazo that would raise the minimum wage for a wide range of health care workers to $25 per hour by June 1, 2025.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

The California attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing several drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to set prices for insulin, joining a growing list of states that have taken such a step as more and more Americans struggle to afford the life-savings diabetes treatment.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a setback to the pharmaceutical industry, a federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that sought to prevent state governments from importing medicines from Canada. The decision is likely to embolden more states to now consider the approach as they look to lower the cost of prescription drugs In a 26-page opinion , U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

— Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colorado would be the second state to legalize psychedelics, following Oregon’s 2020 passage of a similar ballot question. As of Thursday afternoon, Proposition 122 was passing with 51.4% of the vote, though the referendum is still too close to call officially, with 89% of the vote counted.

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APRIL 12, 2023

WASHINGTON — The e-cigarette maker Juul has agreed to pay six states and Washington, D.C., $462 462 million for its alleged role in fueling the recent significant rise in youth vaping, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday.

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MAY 6, 2024

The changing landscape of drug pricing policy in the U.S. has implications for the global pace and direction of innovation.

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MARCH 8, 2023

But the antiquated system of licensure in the United States is creating a huge barrier to realizing the potential for telehealth. Teletherapy has made mental health care more accessible than ever before, making care possible for people who otherwise would never have been able to get it. I’ve seen the benefits of teletherapy firsthand.

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Kanishk Jain, from Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, has been chosen as the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Uttarakhand State Council for the term 2024-25. His official induction took place during the recently concluded CII State Council meeting in Dehradun.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you’re sentenced for breaking a state law in most of middle America, you’re likely out of luck. In 2022, whether an incarcerated person gets cured of hepatitis C is largely determined by where they’re locked up.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the latest flare up over access to the abortion pill, a dozen states filed a lawsuit to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ease restrictions on how mifepristone is prescribed and made available to patients.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s virtually impossible to get information from states and correctional facilities about why people die in prison.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Biosimilars, a much-lauded approach to reducing drug costs in the United States, are still underused here, even as they are proving successful in Europe. Two key reasons are misperceptions of inferiority and the intricacies of U.S. market access. As the head of U.S. health care market.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. After four torrential days, 75 people had died, and Houston — America’s fourth largest city — was deep under water.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

WASHINGTON — Supporters of abortion rights filed separate lawsuits Wednesday challenging two states’ abortion pill restrictions, the opening salvo in what’s expected to a be a protracted legal battle over access to the medications.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The two pharmacy retailers will begin dispensing mifepristone in some states weeks before the start of a Supreme Court case that will decide how widely the pill can be accessed.

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JULY 28, 2023

For now, abortion remains accessible even in states where it’s banned — at least for those who know where to look. It’s still legal in two-thirds of the country, and numerous websites explain how to order medications from international pharmacies to end early pregnancies at home.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

In his 2013 State of the Union address, he laid out a bold vision to fund and accelerate brain research: “If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

From “ Legacy ” by Uché Blackstock, M.D., published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2024 by Uché Blackstock, M.D. In the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a podcast exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health care system. To

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

WASHINGTON — President Biden strived with Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to find a plank of bipartisan support in a split Congress, with health care priorities holding up the frame. 

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