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Hassan: Deal still possible to avoid health rate hikes
Maggie Hassan says deal is still possible to avoid health insurance rate hikes | CloseUp CHILD ADVOCATE, NOW WORKING UNDER THE CONSTRAINT OF SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CUTS. GOOD MORNING, I’M ADAM SEXTON. THE SENATE WRAPPED UP ITS WORK FOR 2025 2025 LATE LAST WEEK, PUSHING SOME KEY VOTES INTO NEXT YEAR. WE WERE ALL SET TO HAVE SENATOR MAGGIE HASSAN IN…
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What is data exclusivity, and how government push may hit availability of cheap, generic drugs | Explained News
The Indian government appears to be considering implementing “data exclusivity” in the pharmaceutical drugs sector after rejecting demands for the provision during trade deal negotiations with the UK and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The lack of a data exclusivity provision is what has given India’s pharmaceutical industry, which thrives on marketing cheaper generics, its edge in the global…
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Dangers of Open Drug Markets: How Medicines Lose Potency
Open drug markets contribute significantly to the circulation of counterfeit medicines, posing a serious threat to public health. Beyond the sale of banned, expired, falsified and substandard drugs, PUNCH Healthwise investigations across three major open drug markets in the country, Idumota, Aba and Onitsha, revealed that warehouses and shops in these markets lack the facilities needed to preserve the quality…
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Six common medications you should NEVER mix with alcohol: Doctors reveal how that ‘pre-emptive’ painkiller could destroy your liver… and the most deadly combination of all
As the holiday season gets underway, Americans are beginning to note recipes for festive cocktails and choose the best wines for the dinner table. But experts are raising the alarm about potentially deadly interactions between alcohol and certain medications. Alcohol is a depressant, meaning it slows down the functioning of the central nervous system, impacting brain activity, reaction time, speech…
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Congress Left Without a Health Care Deal. What Comes Next?
Congress has left for the year without reaching a health care deal, leaving Affordable Care Act subsidies that have helped lower insurance prices for roughly 22 million Americans to expire on Dec. 31 without taking action to address the surge in costs that is expected to follow. As the end of the subsidies looms, families and individual Americans are bracing…
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How stripping diversity, equity and inclusion from health care may make Americans sicker
President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding from institutions that have diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and by cutting federal funding for research projects that the administration considers related to DEI. As of Aug. 20, 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated over 5,100 grants totaling over US$4.4 billion in…
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Prenatal exposure to hot and humid conditions worsens child growth outcomes
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it’s become cliche to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther than even scientists and doctors realized. In a paper published in Science Advances, researchers…
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GLP-1 pills are on the way. Here’s what to know : Short Wave : NPR
SPEAKER 1: You’re listening to Short Wave from NPR. EMILY KWONG: Hey, Short Wavers. I am here with NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sydney Lupkin today to talk about something that has really changed the game when it comes to weight loss, which is injections. When did this all start? SYDNEY LUPKIN: I mean, it all started with celebrity weight loss. [AUDIO…
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Medicinal herbs that traditional healing relied on are vanishing
Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever, coughs and liver problems, arrived on horseback from the surrounding mountains. Bista is one of the few remaining practitioners of Sowa Rigpa, an ancient Tibetan healing…
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‘False hope’: Families who cheered Newsom’s new mental health court feel let down by it
BOOM. Ronda Deplazes had just gotten out of the shower and placed curlers in her long blond hair when she heard something slam against her front door. Boom. Outside, her son — a man who could fix anything, who loved his family, who never remembered these incidents but always apologized later — was yelling and swearing as he pulled large…
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