by Emma Sullivan | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Thursday grilled the CEOs of three major pharmaceutical companies on why the U.S. pays the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, demanding that they find ways to lower medication costs. “The outrageous cost of prescription...
by Emma Sullivan | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on the House Committee for Ways and Means on Tuesday called on manufacturers to improve transparency as the U.S. experiences a nationwide drug shortage. Active shortages are at their highest levels since 2014, according to the American...
by Emma Sullivan | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — In an effort to lower drug costs, Medicare will begin price negotiations with drug manufacturers on Thursday for the 10 most costly prescriptions covered by Medicare. It marks the first step in historic negotiations under the Medicare Drug Price...
by Simone Garber | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Health experts on Wednesday urged Congress to take more action to address the growing problem of unaffordable health care and deteriorating quality of care as spending is expected to continue to rise. Health care spending rates grew 4.1% to reach $4.5...
by Emma Sullivan | Jan 19, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — In February 2020, Angela Meriquez Vázquez was an avid runner with nearly two decades of experience. A month later, she contracted COVID-19 and her life changed dramatically. What initially seemed like a mild infection developed into debilitating...
by Emma Sullivan | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Only 5% of the new enrollees in the Veterans Health Administration over the past 18 months lived in rural areas. Such statistics are disconcerting to lawmakers like Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), who called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to do better....
by Aidan Johnstone | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Country music artist and rapper Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass legislation to help combat the fentanyl crisis that is gripping the country. The Grammy nominee was arrested at 14 years old and spent the following years...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruciating. She would need...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Stethoscope in one hand and a legislative pen in the other, these doctors are bringing their life-saving skills to Congress. “My job is to take care of the patient that’s in front of me, and as a member of Congress, my job is to take care of the...
by Jessica Ma | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A Senate bipartisan inquiry into the failures of the foster care system heard first-hand accounts of the neglect and abuse, with experts providing lawmakers with recommendations for changes on Oct. 25. The inquiry came on the heels of an independent...
by Shravya Pant | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices appeared torn on whether Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement plan, which would protect the Sackler family ownership from civil liability in exchange for $6 billion in opioid relief funds, has legal standing during oral arguments...
by Luis Castaneda | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Efforts to build trust between House Republicans and the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen, fell short Thursday morning as GOP members continued to use the agency as a lightning rod for their criticism of the...
