Officially, the total repayment of the loan is due this month. Otherwise, federal regulators will stop reimbursing the hospitals for Medicare patients' treatments until the loan is repaid in full.
As drug prices spiral upward, politicians in Washington, D.C., and in state governments have sought to address the problem in limited ways, focusing mostly on one drug: insulin.
Ginsburg's absence from the bench could accelerate a trend underway to get cases to the Supreme Court toward invalidating the ACA and rolling back reproductive freedoms for women.
Trump's FDA authorized emergency use of plasma therapy for COVID-19, despite a lack of proof that it saves lives. Staff at CSL Plasma, an industry leader, raised alarms about faulty masks as donors flooded in, but the FDA and OSHA were slow to act.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo) said in a tweet on September 15 he authored legislation "to guarantee coverage to people with pre-existing conditions — no matter what happens to Obamacare."
More than 70,000 residents and staff members in nursing homes and assisted living facilities had died of COVID-19 by mid-August, according to the latest count from Kaiser Family Foundation.
The increase in home dialysis has accelerated recently, spurred by social-distancing requirements, increased use of telehealth and remote monitoring technologies — and fear of the virus.
While it's long been known that smoke can be dangerous when in the thick of it — triggering asthma attacks, cardiac arrests, hospitalizations and more — the Seeley Lake research confirmed what public health experts feared: Wildfire haze can have consequences long after...
Industry experts say Florida is likely to be the first state to win federal approval for a drug importation plan — something that could occur before the November election.
