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Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Florida abortion ban leaves women with few options The potential fallout from Florida’s looming six-week abortion ban is likely to reverberate across the entire country. © AP The state Supreme Court’s Monday ruling to uphold the current 15-week...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) ended the state’s experiment with decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of hard drugs this week, but the debate over whether the state pulled the plug too soon is just beginning. Addiction experts in the state say the decision to end Measure 110 is misguided and misinformed, coming about...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story VR headsets find a place in PTSD treatment While Apple and Meta have made headlines for launching new mass-market virtual reality (VR) headsets in recent months, the potential for the technology to address serious and persistent issues like...

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued letters to the editors of three major science journals on Tuesday, asking them to testify on the relationship between their publications and the federal government. Wenstrup sent letters to the editors-in-chief of The Lancet, Science and Nature science journals requesting...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon}   Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Sanders goes after Ozempic cost Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is demanding pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk slash prices of its two blockbuster drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, following a new study on the costs to manufacture the medications. ©...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, is asking the UnitedHealth Group (UHG) to explain what it is doing to address the ongoing fallout from the cyberattack on one of its subsidiaries last month. In a letter addressed to UHG CEO Andrew Witty, Raskin wrote the Oversight Committee...

America’s global AIDS relief program has been authorized for another year in the bipartisan budget deal, but public health advocates say the single year sends a worrying signal about U.S. commitment on the issue moving forward. The minibus passed by the House on Friday reauthorizes the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through March...

Presented by Express Scripts by Evernorth — The increase comes as more states crack down on abortion. {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Abortion pill use grows even as states crack down The fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022 fundamentally changed abortion access in the U.S., and medication abortion is becomingly...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story HHS launches investigation into UnitedHealth cyberattack The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into the cyberattack that has disrupted health care billing operations across the country. © AP Change Healthcare,...

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Future of Social Security, Medicare commands campaign trail The uncertain futures of Medicare and Social Security came up this week as each party's presumptive nominee for president clashed over how they plan to save the key entitlement programs....