PhRMA Warns of Dire Consequences if Medicare Allowed to Negotiate Drug Prices
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical industry representatives said Wednesday that proposals now being considered on Capitol Hill to lower patients’ prescription drug costs likely will have damaging effects on new drug development and on patients’ access to new medications. As part of a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill, “lawmakers want to offset this amount of new spending by […]
Infrastructure Bill Negotiations Likely to Drag on for Awhile, Analyst Says
WASHINGTON — Negotiations on the two infrastructure bills being considered in Congress — both of which contain health-related provisions — are likely to drag into the fall, according to one healthcare analyst. “I don’t think it’s going to be September or October,” said Allison Orris, Washington-based counsel at Manatt Health, a professional services firm based […]
What Is the Best Medication for Bipolar Disorder?
Mood stabilizers are typically considered the best medication for bipolar disorder. Learn about other medications and treatment options Mood stabilizers are typically considered the best medication for bipolar disorder. However, treatment of bipolar disorder should be individually tailored to your symptoms, frequency of mood swings, and response to treatment. In addition to mood stabilizers, doctors […]
Beige fat ‘indispensable’ in protecting the brain from dementia
Beige is considered a calming paint color, and scientists have new evidence that beige fat has a similar impact on the brain, bringing down the inflammation associated with the more common white fat and providing protection from dementia. They have found that beige fat cells, which are typically intermingled with white fat cells in the […]
Why What Simone Biles Just Did Matters So Much To Black Women Like Me
Full disclosure, I wasn’t even going to watch the Olympics this year. I’d considered watching Track and Field just to see Sha’Carri Richardson literally run circles around her competition. But when she was disqualified for having THC in her system, it felt as though watching the Olympics wouldn’t be worth my time. Until earlier this […]
Where are the Foreigners of the First International Age? Researchers use genetic and isotopic data to investigate human mobility at the Bronze Age city of Alalakh in Turkey
The Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean has long been considered by researchers to have been the ‘first international age,’ especially the period from 1600-1200 BC, when powerful empires from Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt set up large networks of subordinate client kingdoms in the Near East. These empires fought, traded, and corresponded with one another, […]