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STAT+: Budget bill passes in House, but clashes over spending and Medicaid cuts still loom
The House budget bill that passed does not include specific policies, and targeted spending cuts are too big to achieve without cutting Medicaid.
Read MoreF.D.A. Expands Access to Clozapine, a Key Treatment for Schizophrenia
Federal regulators will no longer require patients to provide blood tests before receiving the drug from pharmacies.
Read MoreSTAT+: Trump signs order doubling down on making health care prices clearer
President Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed a priority from his first term: making health care prices public. But hospitals have long loathed price transparency rules.
Read MoreFinerenone and Outpatient Worsening Heart Failure With Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction
This secondary analysis of the Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety Superior to Placebo in Patients With Heart Failure (FINEARTS-HF) randomized clinical trial evaluates the effect of fi
Read MoreSTAT+: A bill is re-introduced in Congress to erase distinctions between small and large molecule drugs in the IRA
The bill would allow Medicare to begin negotiating with pharmaceutical companies over prices for small molecule medicines 13 years after they reach the market, just as with biologics.
Read MoreTiny Ocean Plastics Tied to Big Brain Problems
(MedPage Today) -- Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed.
Read MoreAspirin for Sepsis Flops in Trial
(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Aspirin failed to cut the intensity of organ dysfunction in patients with sepsis, a placebo-controlled phase II trial from Brazil showed.
Read MoreO, Lovely Oysters. What Can You Tell Us About Our Changing World?
(MedPage Today) -- Who hasn't read Lewis Carroll's ode in which sweet, young oysters leave their safe ocean-bed only to be eaten by a wily walrus and his dour human pal? Today, scholars still debate t
Read MorePatients Struggle With Lack of Consistent Coverage for New Weight-Loss Drugs
(MedPage Today) -- Supplies of high-demand obesity treatments are improving, but that doesn't mean it's easier to get them.
Read MoreUnknown illness kills more than 50 in north-west DRC
The outbreak, first discovered in three children who ate a bat, has caused 431 cases and 53 deathsAn unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has killed more than 50 people in
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