Indiana-based pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced in a statement obtained by The Hill on Saturday that it would look to expand employment growth outside the state following the passage of a near-total ban on abortion. The legislation, signed into law by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), would bar the procedure after 10 weeks post-fertilization except in cases of rape and […]
The Medical Care Blog is returning from its summer break this month. We hope you are feeling recharged and ready to dig deep again into health care and public health. We’re beginning with a series of retrospective posts to highlight the work of our contributors on prominent topics. This week, we focus on a collection of five exceptional articles from […]
The powerful pharmaceutical industry is on the verge of a rare defeat in Congress, as Democrats say they have the votes to pass legislation targeting high drug costs. After securing the support of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) late Thursday, Senate Democrats appear poised to pass sweeping legislation that, among a host of climate and tax measures, would allow Medicare to […]
KHN senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed New York’s polio case with WBEZ’s “Reset With Sasha-Ann Simons” on Aug. 2. Click here to hear Allen on WBEZ Read Allen’s “What the Polio Case in New York Tells Us About the End of Polio” KHN senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed health insurance price transparency rules that took effect July 1 on WJR’s […]
A jury in Minnesota ruled on Friday that a pharmacist did not commit discrimination when he did not fill an emergency contraception prescription for a woman after her prior contraceptive method failed, according to the gender advocacy group Gender Justice. A jury in Aitkin County found that a pharmacist’s decision not to provide an emergency contraception prescription to Andrea Anderson, […]
Labor costs, driven by demand for contract workers amid staff shortages, were the hot topic in the hospital industry’s second-quarter earnings reports. Health system are doling out higher pay and bonuses to attract workers, despite ongoing financial challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue results were mixed, with some health systems recording small increases, while others failed to turn it around two […]
Drug overdose deaths in older adults have skyrocketed in recent years, jumping 147% over the last decade – the highest increase in any age group in the country. Among people 65 and older, men are twice as likely as women to suffer overdoses, and Black Americans are over 10% more likely than other minority groups. Given that seniors are more […]
‘Single biggest investment in climate change in U.S. history’ The bill would invest $369 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies including investments in renewable energy production and tax rebates for consumers to buy new or used electric vehicles. It’s broken down to include $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production […]
At first, it was all very exciting. In 1971, a team of Danish researchers stationed on Greenland’s northwest coast found that a local Inuit community had remarkably low levels of diabetes and heart disease. The reason, the researchers surmised, was their high-marine-fat diet—in other words, fish oil. Incidence of heart disease, which once afflicted relatively few Americans, had shot up […]
When Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CEO of rural healthcare startup Homeward, was 12 years old, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. But living in rural Minnesota, she did not see an endocrinologist for a long time. “It wasn’t until I went to medical school that I realized how scary and dangerous that was,” said Schneider, who was previously the president and […]