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Bill Would Let Pharmacists “Prescribe” Narcan

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s law to allow access to overdose-reversing medicine without a medical provider’s prescription is missing a key phrase that would actually allow the reform, according to the state’s attorney general’s office and mental health and addiction groups. The Senate, on Monday, and the House, last week, approved passage of a bill adding […]

47 Counties Won’t Have Obamacare

Forty-seven counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers next year and 1,200 could have only one, according to a new federal report. The map released Tuesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a county-by-county map of projected insurer participation in Obamacare. The report comes as the Senate is trying to work […]

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Healthcare Groups Petition High Court on Travel Ban

A second U.S. Appeals Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, and already healthcare organizations are asking the Supreme Court not to issue a stay of the injunctions against it. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday to uphold a freeze on the travel ban, saying […]

Trump to Appoint UNC Doctor to Cancer Institute

The director of the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center could be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the National Cancer Institute. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to appoint Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, 50, to head the federal agency in charge of cancer research. Sharpless, a Greensboro native, has been […]

Key Republican Demands Action to Shore Up Insurance Markets

A senior House Republican on Thursday called for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP could get blamed for rising premiums and dwindling choices next year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the government should keep paying billions of dollars in “cost-sharing” […]

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Skirmish Unfolding Over Healthcare

The drama over James B. Comey’s testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only excitement playing out on Capitol Hill today. A lower-profile fight involving the House health-care bill and whether it can go over to the Senate is not exactly Comey vs. Trump on charges of Russian election interference. But it is […]

N.E. Journal: Trump’s Making Us Mentally Ill

A new review paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a growing body of empirical evidence shows how presidential elections can have effects on physical and mental health, and can influence behavior. Specifically, they found evidence that suggests that the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump has had a negative […]

Scientist: Trumpcare Presents Threat to Research

A facet of the Republican-led American Health Care Act would “cripple” the advances made in using genomic and big data sets to bolster medicine, the nation’s first federal chief data scientist says. DJ Patil, U.S. chief data scientist in the latter years of Barack Obama’s presidency, wrote on Medium that Trumpcare, as the AHCA is […]

Lawmakers Approve UNLV Med School

CARSON CITY, Nev. — In the works for years, a new medical school is finally going to become a reality at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Nevada Legislature gave final approval Monday night to a bill that includes $25 million in state money to build the UNLV School of Medicine. It’s been a […]

Senate Juggles Competing Healthcare Demands

WASHINGTON — For Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, writing a Republican-only health care bill that can pass the Senate boils down to this question: How do you solve a problem like Dean, Lisa, Patrick, Ted, Rand and Susan? Those are some GOP senators whose clashing demands McConnell, R-Ky., must resolve. Facing solid Democratic opposition to demolishing […]

Healthcare Plan Presents Financial Dilemma

Trump’s “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” and the Proposed American Health Care Policy may Crush Most of the Americans under a Huge Financial Dilemma. Since he took the office, President Mr. Donald Trump has been in a constant effort to completely wipe out any signs of the Obama regime from the United States of America. He […]

Opioid Crisis Devastates Rural Maryland

DENTON, Md. — If there is one hopeful thing about Maryland’s opioid crisis, it’s that no one is denying the obvious. “Very honestly nothing is working,” said Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins. “It’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” For rural areas where communities are small and the stigma is large, opioids can be particularly insidious. […]

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