Silvana Toska was playing in a grass field with her daughters late last fall when she felt a sting on her ankle. The family had come to listen for barred and great horned owls as the sun set on a large park near their Davidson, North Carolina, home. It was “just like a mosquito bite,…
Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California’s North Coast. “They’re the folks that work at restaurants. They’re the teacher’s aides,” said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open Door’s chief executive more than six years ago. Those patients, he said, are “really the…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Wednesday, Apr 29 2026 9:06 AM Full Issue But NBC News reports that hospital CEOs pushed back during the House hearing Tuesday, saying high costs were a product of factors including low reimbursement rates and their obligation to treat sicker and sometimes uninsured patients. Meanwhile, a…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Wednesday, Apr 29 2026 9:06 AM Full Issue FDA staff have expressed concerns about the use of camizestrant to treat metastatic breast cancer and capivasertib for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote on these two drug applications Thursday. MedPage…
The Hill: CDC Warns Of Drug-Resistant Salmonella Cases In 13 States The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of more than two dozen cases of possibly drug-resistant salmonella cases across 13 states. In an update last week, the CDC said all 34 people — several of whom are children— have the same strain…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Wednesday, Apr 29 2026 9:06 AM Full Issue The jury attributed 88% of the fault to the University of Kansas Hospital Authority and 12% of the fault to LivaNova USA Inc., the medtech company that manufactured the device that was used in Stephen Nolte’s heart surgery…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Tuesday, Apr 28 2026 Full Issue The federal government has paid to supply the test strips, which also check for other contaminants, to states since 2021, but the Trump administration now contends that harm-reduction measures encourage drug use, The New York Times reports. Experts assert that…
Fierce Healthcare: Doctors’ Liability Premiums Rise For 7th Straight Year Physicians’ medical liability insurance premiums rose for the seventh consecutive year in 2025, a first for the field since 2005, and at the second-highest rate since that same year, according to a new American Medical Association analysis. Among responses to an annual survey of leading…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Tuesday, Apr 28 2026 Full Issue On Friday, Natrona County District Judge Dan Forgey granted a temporary restraining order against a new state law banning abortion after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected. Forgey claimed it was likely to be overturned on the grounds that it…
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Tuesday, Apr 28 2026 Full Issue At least three pharma firms — Novartis, Amgen, and Eli Lilly — say they’re closer to unraveling the mystery of lipoprotein(a), which is a more dangerous cousin to LDL cholesterol. Diet and exercise don’t influence lp(a) levels, CNBC reported, and…