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WHO says countries are already experiencing significant health system disruptions

The new findings, based on a rapid WHO assessment of the fast-evolving situation, raise concern for potentially deeper and prolonged effects on health systems and services across the world due to sud

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STAT+: Attorneys general want Congress to prohibit PBMs from owning affiliated pharmacies

State AGs are concerned about conflicts of interest that allow PBMs to dominate health plan designs and distort the distribution and pricing of medicines.

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UK riots led to deterioration in asylum seekers’ mental health, says report

Mental Health Foundation says civil unrest last summer left many fearful of attacks by far-right protestersLast summer’s riots, which took place after the murder of three girls at a Southport dance

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Trump Moves to Put New Tariffs on Computer Chips and Drugs

Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

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Study Pinpoints Barriers to Kids Receiving Living-Donor Kidney Transplants

(MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Several factors may decrease a child's chances of receiving a living-donor kidney transplant, a mixed-methods study found.

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Docs Decry Optum's Tactics for Collecting Loan Repayments From Change Cyberattack

(MedPage Today) -- The February 2024 cyberattack on Change Healthcare -- a large health claims processor owned by UnitedHealth Group -- hit Christine Meyer, MD's practice in Exton, Pennsylvania h

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Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

(MedPage Today) -- People that required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort

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STAT+: Trump administration launches probe into pharmaceutical imports

The Trump administration disclosed that it had formally opened an investigation into the extent to which the importation of certain pharmaceuticals may threaten national security.

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Will Memoli Be the Next NIAID Director?

(MedPage Today) -- During an on-camera interview with CBS News last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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