STAT+: GOP aims to change Medicare adviser’s math so it’s more favorable to health insurers
The GOP bill directs MedPAC to study the topic of overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans in a manner that’s more favorable to insurers.
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STAT+: Senators highlight the power Chris Klomp wields at confirmation hearings
Chris Klomp has already played a major role in the Trump administration and its Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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Republican senator blames Trump administration policies for measles deaths in Pennsylvania
Health committee chair Bill Cassidy said fatal outbreak of disease is a ‘terrible legacy’ for Trump administrationUS politics live – latest updatesSenator Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the US…
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Family of pregnant woman who died sues Ken Paxton for wrongful death
Tierra Walker, 37, was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia at 20 weeks, and family says denial of abortion led to deathA wrongful death lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney…
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis findsWomen with the same medical condition as men are less likely to be offered…
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Ferritin face: the new health scare taking social media by storm
Seeing a pallid, washed-out face in the mirror? Prepare to be diagnosed …Name: Ferritin face.Age: The name is new, but the symptoms are old. Continue reading...
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WHO expresses cautious optimism about bid to control Ebola outbreak in DRC
There is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the trajectory of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the WHO says.
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays | Letters
Andrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activities and food programmeThere are 500,000 children growing up in poorer families who are…
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Doctors, not cameras, save babies in intensive care | Brief letters
Lucy Letby case | At one’s peak | Leaving the debate | Cut from the same cloth | End of the odyssey | A word’s worthRe the Thirlwall report on the Lucy Letby case (Thirlwall report: what did it say…
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STAT+: Scientists made mice with half a brain. Then they filled them with human organoids
Scientists have made mice with half a brain, then filled them with human organoids — possibly opening new avenues for research but also raising ethical issues.
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STAT+: Sen. Warren demands to see Trump drug-pricing pharma contracts, accuses RFK Jr. of hiding them
An FDA pilot program to speed up drug development, Democrats plan health care probes after midterms, and more biotech news
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about faster FDA approvals, access to experimental drugs in Montana, and more
The FDA is opening applications for a pilot program designed to shorten the time it takes for drugmakers to begin testing their products in humans
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husbandThe British-American novelist…
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Safe Spaces by Tice Cin review – a kaleidoscopic vision of precarity, music and grief
Part spoken-word poem, part journalistic meditation, this is an inventive, tender novel of a songwriter’s journey through love and loss in LondonTice Cin’s philosophical and poetic new novel about a…
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Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection
This story of Soviet agent and his MI6 handler in revolutionary Iran is a page-turning masterpieceBen Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money…
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A moment that changed me: I felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation
For years, my vitiligo controlled my life, and I was constantly trying to disguise it. But one day, I realised I could take a very different and extremely liberating approachThe microphone felt…
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Melville House to ‘Recapitalize’ with New Partner
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Ann Dye Joins HBG as VP of Business Operations
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