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AP: Drug Prices Going Up Despite Trump Promise
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump made reducing drug prices a key promise during his election campaign, repeatedly accusing drug makers of “getting away with murder.” At the end of May, he promised that drug companies would be announcing “massive” voluntary drug price cuts within two weeks. That hasn’t happened, and an Associated Press analysis […]
Disparities
Why America Faces a Doctor Shortage
For more than 75 years, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), a joint venture of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), has been tasked with maintaining excellence in American medical education by accrediting all medical schools in the U.S. and Canada. At first glance, LCME seems like […]
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Immune System Cancer Research
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to two researchers from the United States and Japan for advances in discovering how the body’s immune system can fight off the scourge of cancer. The 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize will be shared by James Allison of the University of Texas Austin and Tasuku Honjo […]
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Study: Dementia Will Hit People of Color Hardest in Future
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) will increase some 178% among all Americans aged 65 years and older by 2060, but Hispanic, African American and other racial and ethnic groups will see the fastest growing rates. They say the study of […]
Latinx
Creating an Inclusion Imperative: Advancing Diversity in Medical Education
It is no secret there are incredible gaps in our health care system today. In many major cities, you can go from neighborhood to neighborhood and see the average life expectancy drop by several decades. When you look at the underserved communities hit the hardest by health inequity, many are made up of diverse populations.
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Dangerous Denial
President Trump provoked outrage on Twitter and in the media in mid-September with his tweets that denied the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and blamed Democrats for artificially elevating it. Measuring the mortality in epidemic or emergency periods has long been controversial. Authorities often deny reports of high mortality because […]
Policies
Trump to Divert $200 from Health Programs to Detention
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified Congress on Wednesday that it plans to transfer up to $186 million from its programs to help cover the costs of housing a growing number of immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More
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Journal Compares Child Separation Policy to Tuskegee Case
Black slave women were habitually tortured for ‘research’ by star doctors who were commemorated in statues and plaques. Over 40 years, more than 400 black men with syphilis were given fake medicine so researchers could see how the disease developed. Thousands of women, mainly Latinas, were sterilized in the eugenics movement. These are just a […]
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Lawmakers Reject Plan to Put Drug Prices in Ads
A federal appropriations bill will not include a bipartisan provision that would have required drug manufacturers to be more transparent with costs to consumers after it was blocked by House Republicans.1 Jointly sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the provision would have required list prices included in direct-to-consumer television advertising. […]
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Democrats Plan to Turn Obamacare Issue Against G.O.P.
The voter anger over healthcare that once propelled Republicans to the majority in the House and Senate is now buoying Democrats’ hopes for the midterm elections. When Democrats passed and rolled out Obamacare, voters shouted down lawmakers at town halls and rallied in huge demonstrations to protest changes in coverage, rising premiums, and the loss […]
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Former U.N. Chief Calls U.S. Healthcare System ‘Morally Wrong’
The former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly financed healthcare as a “human right”. Ban made the comments in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in New York, as part of his work with The Elders, […]
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Federal Judges Back Coverage for Transgender Care
Two different federal courts granted rulings last week in favor of allowing transgender people to access the medically necessary care prescribed to them by their doctors. The rulings confirm the Affordable Care Act’s protections on the basis of sex extend to transgender people. Read More
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