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First Opinion By Eli Cahan

A new rule that protects VA clinicians who practice across state lines should kick off a movement

Teen mental health

Health By Megan Thielking

Parents want to help their kids. Teens want authority over their mental health care. One state tries to balance both

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Health By Andrew Joseph

‘A blizzard of prescriptions’: Documents reveal new details about Purdue’s marketing of OxyContin

Food workers

First Opinion By Amy K. Liebman

Every state needs emergency regulations to protect essential food workers

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Health By Andrew Joseph

‘They’re not really doing anything’: As Covid-19 cases spiral, leaders around the U.S. lose urgency on prevention

Freedom Preparatory Academy

Health By Andrew Joseph

‘At a breaking point’: New surge of Covid-19 cases has states, hospitals scrambling, yet again

Special Report By Lev Facher

First-of-its-kind examination shows how widely pharma showers campaign cash at the state level

Lemonaid hurdles

Business By Rebecca Robbins

A startup promised to make health care ‘refreshingly simple.’ Building the business has been anything but

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maple leaf pills

Politics By Lev Facher

States still can’t import drugs from Canada. Now, many are seeking to import Canadian prices

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Health By Amy Sokolow

A Baltimore pastor, preaching about vaccines to the Black community, emphasizes personal agency

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US President-Elect Joe Biden

Politics By Nicholas Florko, Lev Facher, Rachel Cohrs, Andrew Joseph, and Casey Ross

The 9 biggest challenges Biden will face on Covid-19, from today on

Houston, Texas, hospitals beds

First Opinion By Pinar Karaca-Mandic

New data, dashboard provide information on Covid-19 hospital capacity

Donna Shalala

Politics By Andrew Joseph, Lev Facher, Kate Sheridan, and Nicholas Florko

Shalala loses — and other 2020 election results that will have big implications for health and science

South Dakota Capitol protest

First Opinion By Kacie Kidd and Gina Sequeira

Laws to ban gender-affirming care could increase youth suicides, parents fear

California ballot measure

Politics By Usha Lee McFarling

With wildfires burning and Covid-19 spreading, can California afford stem cell research? Voters are set to decide

prescription drug pricing/NH

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Out-of-pocket spending on specialty drugs dropped dramatically after states capped costs

Insulin in Minnesota

Politics By Nicholas Florko

Drug makers sue to block Minnesota law making it cheaper to get insulin in emergencies

prescription drug pricing/NH

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Maryland governor vetoes funding for a prescription drug affordability board

Nicole Smith-Holt

Politics By Nicholas Florko

After a hard-won political fight, this state expanded access to insulin. Can others follow its lead?

D. TRUMP 4/16

Politics By Lev Facher

Trump outlines ‘phases’ for reopening states once coronavirus cases begin to decline

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Politics By Nicholas Florko

State legislatures are lapping the federal government on drug pricing — even amid the coronavirus

Man walking in Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Who gets hospitalized for Covid-19? Report shows differences by race and sex

MAINE VACCINE REFERENDUM

Politics By Lev Facher

‘Reject Big Pharma’: Anti-vaccine activists co-opt a populist slogan to try to repeal a state immunization law

Medical costs photo illustration

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Americans with employer coverage saw growth in drug spending outpace other medical costs

CVS/Aetna

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

PBMs favor their own pharmacies in the Florida Medicaid program

Plavix

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Bristol-Myers and Sanofi accuse Hawaii of violating their free speech rights

California drug prices

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

California plans to sell its own generic drugs in hopes of lowering costs

Oxycontin purdue photo illo

Health By Andrew Joseph and Shraddha Chakradhar

Faced with prescriber fears of OxyContin misuse, Purdue sales reps misleadingly played up drug’s safety, documents show

Medication samples

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Florida becomes the latest state to examine Sun Pharma licenses for distributing samples

California State flag

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Generic makers will appeal ruling that allows California to proceed with law banning pay-to-delay deals

Three to Watch Drug Pricing

Politics By Nicholas Florko

3 drug pricing policy experiments to watch in 2020

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Biotech By Scott Kirsner — Boston Globe

In tight Massachusetts job market, it’s relo for biotech and remote for tech hires

EEE virus

Health By Helen Branswell

Why the huge surge in EEE cases? Federal rules requiring quick sample disposal mean we may never know