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I don't really get personal on Twitter, but I need to talk about my beautiful, kind cousin Elizabeth who the world lost to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) in June.
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Not long after Jeff German — a reporter at the — was slain outside of his home last fall, my editor called me with a question.
The Post had reached out, asking if we could help in some way. Jeff's editor had an idea. Maybe we could take on the last of his work.
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👀 Generic giant Teva is leaving drug lobby PhRMA, just as a top exec is in line to lead the generic lobby, Association for Accessible Medicines
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One of them my sibling. Can’t believe we’re two years out from the grid failure and right back here with winter outages that could kill people.
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Ice and falling trees and limbs are the chief culprit -- not the notorious #TexasPowerGrid -- but the winter storm that swept Texas has left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity, @sarahbfw reports. #TexasFreeze #winterstorm #txwx #dfwx dallasnews.com/news/weather/2
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Most of all, Sander is focused on high drug costs. No surprise, but he plans to back Rs into a corner:
“If they think that the government should play no role in lowering the cost of prescription drugs, that’s fine...go back to their constituents and tell them that."
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Cassidy wants to probe the way the Biden administration has implemented a law he co-sponsored to eliminate patients' surprise medical bills, which he argued heavily favors insurers over hospitals.
He's also focused on reauthorizing mental health care coverage.
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For both, an immediate item is addressing the nursing shortage. Sanders acknowledged he won't have the votes for Medicare for All, but wants to build up community health centers and dental care, both of which he thinks will get bipartisan buy-in.
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It's finally official: will chair the Senate health committee, with as ranking member.
I spoke to both senators about their top priorities and where they diverge:
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TODAY: Dems are reintroducing a bill to guarantee the right to travel across state lines for an abortion. No state has yet attempted to prosecute someone for helping another person travel for the procedure but a couple states have explored doing so.
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WH’s Jen Klein on public health emergency for abortion: “No option is off the table that will expand access to reproductive health care. But at this point, we don’t believe that declaring a public health emergency would provide meaningful new resources in this fight.”
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And the Republican-led Covid oversight hearings begin next Wednesday, the House Energy & Commerce Committee announced this morning. Lineup includes top Biden administration health officials from NIH, CDC, FDA & ASPR
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Bringing in this piece to CrimeReads is officially the pinnacle of my career. Thanks to for writing it and fulfilling my wildest dreams!
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The U.S. has now shut off distribution of 's COVID-19 vaccine
ahead of the expiration of all government-bought doses next month
the is not expected to extend the shelf life for the doses
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Medicare may test policy of paying less for accelerated approval drugs statnews.com/2023/01/31/med via
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I wrote about high-priced drugs for years. Then my toddler needed one. It was an *excruciating* lesson in personal futility. But a typical struggle in American health care.
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NEW and first STAT special from : FDA taps Troy Tazbaz, most recently a senior vice president at Oracle, to head digital health.
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Sorry for the Friday night story, but I bet you'll care: Federal advisers advanced proposals to bolster govt oversight of pathogen research that alters viruses.
These 'gain-of-function' studies have become the crux of GOP questions about Covid's origins.
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Lastly, shout out to for writing this article that inspired me to get checked out before it was too late.
Journalism saves lives. It really does.
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The first biosimilar version of top-selling medicine Humira will become available next week, setting up for a key test case of just how much money biosimilars can save. From
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Carson, CA has had a flavor ban since 2020. They've done two inspections and issued zero fines since. In 45 minutes I found four shops selling these products.
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Today was the memorial service for Blake Hounshell, who I still can't fathom is gone. It was a tremendous celebration of a wonderful, creative, generous man. I wish he could have seen how much he is loved. Please consider donating to his gofundme
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NEW: FDA to ease blood donation ban on gay men soon, and allow monogamous to give w/ washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01
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The answer to everyone's Medicare vs Medicare Advantage question, and whether there was cake:
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HHS @SecBecerra celebrating his 65th birthday as you do: Talking to seniors about getting their shingles and Covid shots then heading to a tai chi class.
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The pharmaceutical industry, NAACP, a cancer center, and a nonpartisan think tank walk into a bar...
on the unlikely alliances forming around new obesity drugs
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Follow along with and 's live blog of the FDA advisory committee on Covid vaccines
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Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are increasingly being used for weight loss. But how do they work? What are their side effects? And are more drugs like them on the way? Check out this new STAT video explainer, animated beautifully by
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HHS celebrating his 65th birthday as you do: Talking to seniors about getting their shingles and Covid shots then heading to a tai chi class.
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NEW from : The drug lobby PhRMA cut ties with Jeff Ricchetti, brother of a top Biden aide who was instrumental in a pricing reform deal.
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The tried to open up availability of abortion pills by allowing pharmacists to dispense them. But it will probably take a court case to settle how access will work in states with strict abortion restrictions, writes.
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Abortion pills are in a legal gray area in 12 of the country’s most abortion-restrictive states, where the procedure is banned from conception to six weeks. Latest from
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This GAO report urging better oversight on pathogen research is a precursor to a looming NIH meeting on studying risky forms of infectious diseases.
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“Since warming has only continued since [2011], the finding is probably an underestimate”
NEW: Unable to get the latest diabetes/obesity drugs, some people are turning to risky sources — like websites where they order the active ingredients in powder form and mix it themselves at home
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NEW: David Kessler, one of Biden's day one Covid advisers, is leaving this month.
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The worst piece I’ve ever had to write, an unexpected and much-too-soon obituary for my friend and colleague :
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As the new Senate health committee chair, Bernie Sanders wants to move “very aggressively” on the high cost of prescription drugs.
What's not at the top of his list? A hearing on Medicare-for-all.
More on his agenda here:
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