Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research

The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder — the federal government’s National Institutes of Health. In an Aug. 7 executive order, President Donald Trump announced that political officers would have the power to summarily cancel any…

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Stigma Is The Real Delay In Healthcare

The longer someone waits to seek help, the more their condition progresses, the harder it becomes to intervene, and the easier it becomes to keep waiting. Delay compounds. That’s what makes it so dangerous, and so worth targeting directly. The post Stigma Is The Real Delay In Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.

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Debunked Episode 22: With ACA Subsidies Set to Expire and the Open Enrollment Window Closing, Members of Congress Brainstorm Alternatives

What are the alternatives to extending ACA subsidies for the 22 million people who purchase health plans on the ACA Marketplace? That’s the focus of the latest episode of the Debunked podcast, hosted by MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch. The post Debunked Episode 22:…

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Inside the Battle for the Future of Addiction Medicine

NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street. “Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don’t know if they want to stop using drugs or…

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