KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Wrapping Up Summer’s Health News
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‘Free’ Screening? Know Your Rights to Get No-Cost Care
An ounce of prevention … well, you know the rest. In medicine, prevention aims to spot problems before they worsen, affecting both a patient’s health […]
Read moreDespite Losing Federal Money, California Is Still Testing Uninsured Residents for Covid — For Now
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is still offering free covid testing to uninsured residents even though the federal government ran out of money to pay for […]
Read moreCalifornia Handed Its Medicaid Drug Program to One Company. Then Came a Corporate Takeover.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the private […]
Read morePfizer CEO Pushes Yearly Shots for Covid. Not So Fast, Experts Say.
When Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said March 13 that all Americans would need a second booster shot, it struck many covid experts as a self-serving […]
Read moreAs Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children Stalls
Two months after Pfizer’s covid vaccine was authorized for children ages 5 to 11, just 27% have received at least one shot, according to Jan. […]
Read moreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Dems Agree to Agree, But Not on What to Agree On
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Read moreFeds to Nix Work Requirements in Montana Medicaid Expansion Program
Federal health officials will likely reject Montana’s request to include work requirements for beneficiaries of its Medicaid expansion program, which insures 100,000 low-income Montana adults, […]
Read moreFDA Approves Bristol Myers Squibb’s Zeposia (ozanimod), an Oral Treatment for Adults with Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE) May 27, 2021 — Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zeposia (ozanimod) 0.92 […]
Read moreFDA Approves Zynrelef
FDA Approves Zynrelef (bupivacaine and meloxicam) for the Management of Postoperative Pain SAN DIEGO, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HRTX), a […]
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