As a safety-net for the poor, Congress started a drug rebate program in Medicaid in 1990 to provide pharmaceuticals to the most vulnerable enrollees. Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires drug companies that participate in the Medicaid entitlement to sell outpatient pharmaceuticals to various medical facilities that provide care to low-income patients. The program began in 1992 and was essentially an extension of the original drug rebate plan. Drug companies give...
Medicare has long been barred from covering weight loss treatments for beneficiaries due to the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed technology to help scientists observe proteins in motion. Understanding how proteins move will allow novel drugs to be designed.
Cornyn and Cruz have complained about spying on journalists before. Now
The increasingly obvious incompetence of President Joe Biden is clearly a serious problem, yet many people see it as a one-off, easily solved if the Democrats can find a way to jettison him and run somebody else this fall, or if the Republicans can defeat him and win control of both houses of Congress. Unfortunately, the rolling disaster that is our current federal government is much more than that. It is the inevitable outcome of a widespread, thorough rejection of the plain...
Neighbourhood police officers stopped the car as it appeared to be in a poor condition
Former President Donald Trump is on the receiving end of backlash after he announced his campaign is selling "God Bless the USA Bibles" for $59.99, but this columnist wants to take a hard look his readers. Columnist Amanda Marcotte, in an op-ed published by Salon Thursday, said she believes the announcement was a "not-at-all subtle message" that Trump "doesn't believe any of this faith-in-God crap, but he definitely believes in using Christian identity as a weapon to make money and dominate his...
Allegations made by federal MP Andrew Wilkie have set off a firestorm in the footy world - but the AFL is refusing to budge an inch from its stance on giving players secret drug tests.
How did Jim Troupis, a leader in fake Republican elector scheme, get reappointed?
On Thursday, March 14, Elizabeth School District asked for a waiver from the Colorado State Board of Education allowing it to consider hiring non-licensed substitutes to serve in its classrooms as a last resort. The rural district, which sits on the edge of the Denver metro area, has been working for the last year to close a staffing gap resulting from a substitute fill rate of less than 60%, which has put major pressure on its teachers. Under state rules, school districts may...
Long lines and cumbersome ID requirements discourage students from voting.
The benefits of drugs such as donanemab, aducanumab and lecanemab are proving harder to quantify than potential harms, experts sayIt was heralded in news articles as a “breakthrough”, a “turning point” and a “gamechanger” for Alzheimer’s disease. Some experts went so far as to call the drug, donanemab, the “beginning of the end” for the debilitating condition.Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in May 2023 released data from a clinical trial they said showed donanemab slowed cognitive and...