The federal government scaled back its recommended childhood vaccines, sidelining six that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death. Just three of those that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend — against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus — have prevented nearly 2 million hospitalizations and 90,000 deaths in the…
NUEVA ORLEANS, Louisiana. — Desde afuera, el antiguo local de la tienda Family Dollar, en el 9th Ward, luce intimidante. Está cubierto de grafitis y en el estacionamiento hay latas de aluminio y basura. Está ubicado en una calle con otros terrenos baldíos y edificios en ruinas: símbolos de la devastación persistente que este vecindario,…
NEW ORLEANS — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots and decayed buildings — symbols of the lasting devastation this neighborhood, one of the city’s…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Many low-income Californians prescribed wildly popular weight loss drugs lost their coverage for the medications at the start of the new year. Health officials are recommending diet and exercise as alternatives to heavily advertised weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, advice experts say is unrealistic. “Of course he tried eating well…
Medicare Drug Price Negotiation aims to reduce the prices paid for high cost pharmaceuticals. Traditionally, biologic drug price reductions after loss of exclusivity (LOE) have occurred due to the introduction of biosimilar competitors. A recent paper by Beinfeld et al. 2025 examines whether Medicare Drug Price Negotiation enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is…
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You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps you fell in the shower, and now your family wants you to arrange help with…
LODGE GRASS, Mont. — Brothers Lonny and Teyon Fritzler walked amid the tall grass and cottonwood trees surrounding their boarded-up childhood home near the Little Bighorn River and daydreamed about ways to rebuild. The rolling prairie outside the single-story clapboard home is where Lonny learned from their grandfather how to break horses. It’s where Teyon…
The Trump administration has introduced three most-favored-nation (MFN) drug pricing initiatives designed to link U.S. pharmaceutical costs to prices paid in economically comparable countries. Most-favored-nation pricing requires manufacturers to provide rebates when U.S. prices exceed those in reference nations—a direct response to the persistent gap between U.S. drug prices and those in other developed economies….
El gobierno federal ha reducido drásticamente la cantidad de vacunas infantiles recomendadas, dejando fuera seis inmunizaciones de rutina que han protegido a millones de personas de enfermedades graves, discapacidades a largo plazo y muertes. Solo tres de las seis vacunas que los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas…