by Jessica Casebolt | May 11, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Vermont’s Republican governor signed abortion and gender-affirming shield bills into law Wednesday that are the first in the country to explicitly include protecting access to abortion medication even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released new guidance Tuesday advising that women begin receiving annual breast cancer screenings at age 40 instead of its previous recommendation of 50, citing updated science. The independent volunteer panel of physicians’...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Some of the world’s biggest drugmakers are laying legal groundwork to fight the U.S. plan to negotiate drug prices for its Medicare health coverage, including the argument that a ban against speaking about these talks violates constitutional rights, according to six...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves, Uncategorized
Marijuana and other products containing THC have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available. Although decades ago, the THC content of weed was commonly less than 1.5 percent, some products on the market today are more than...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 10, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
The White House isn’t quite ready to launch its new pandemic response office for a neat handoff at the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha told reporters Tuesday. Jha said White House officials are in the...
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