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Alzheimer’s: Medicare will cover Leqembi for all patients if FDA approves drug, CMS chief says
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during her nomination hearing to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Washington on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Medicare will cover the new Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi for all patients eligible under the medication’s label […]
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Mpox outbreak was wake-up call for smallpox preparation, vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says
A health care worker prepares a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images The maker of the mpox vaccine is looking at ways to dramatically scale up its production capacity to prepare for a potential […]
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Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi CEOs to testify before Senate on lowering insulin prices
In this photo illustration, an insulin pen manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company is displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images The top executives of the three drug companies that control 90% of the global insulin market will testify May 10 before the Senate Health […]
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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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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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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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