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Senate legislation would cap insulin at $35 per month for people with private insurance
In this photo illustration, insulin pens manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company are displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Bipartisan Senate legislation introduced Friday would cap the price of insulin at $35 per month for people with private insurance. The bill, drafted by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and […]
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DOJ charges 18 people — including doctors — in massive Covid health care fraud takedowns
Eighteen people, some of them doctors, were criminally charged with Covid-19 health-care fraud schemes that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from false billings and theft from federally-funded programs, the Department of Justice said Thursday. The charges, which span nine federal judicial districts, comprise the largest coordinated law enforcement action in the U.S. targeting fraud […]
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Supreme Court delays ruling on abortion pill mifepristone restrictions until at least Friday
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday issued an order allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available by mail delivery and without tighter restrictions on how it is used […]
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Anti-abortion group asks Supreme Court to keep mifepristone restrictions
Anti-abortion demonstrators celebrate outside the United States Supreme Court as the court rules in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters An anti-abortion group on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to keep restrictions on the abortion […]
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FDA authorizes additional omicron Covid booster for seniors and people with weak immune systems
Sylvester Fisher gets a influenza vaccine from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 09, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The vaccines were being offered along with pneumonia vaccines and the recently authorized COVID-19 booster vaccine, which protects against the original SARS-CoV-2 […]
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Marketplace may possibly overlook economic downturn for 1st time due to the fact 1945, RBC’s major strategist Lori Calvasina finds
Fast Funds Market may perhaps overlook recession for initially time considering the fact that 1945, RBC’s best strategist Lori Calvasina finds Revealed Mon, Apr 17 20238:45 PM EDT Natalie Zhang@nat_zhang Check out Live Supply
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Supreme Court lifts abortion pill restrictions for now
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked lower court rulings that imposed tighter restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone last week. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that part of […]
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Supreme Court asked to block ruling that threatens access to abortion pill mifepristone
In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Justice Department and the abortion pill distributor Danco Laboratories on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block an order that threatens access to mifepristone. The U.S. 5th […]
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Key court ruling does not restrict abortion pill access in 17 states, Washington state AG says
Mifepristone (Mifeprex), one of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, is displayed at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The abortion pill mifepristone will remain fully available in more than a dozen states […]
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New York and California are stockpiling alternative abortion pill misoprostol
Pills of Misoprostol, used to terminate early pregnancies, are displayed in a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, May 12, 2022. George Frey | Reuters New York and California are stockpiling massive quantities of an alternative abortion medication in case a federal judge’s order suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the main drug mifepristone goes […]
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