Health Headlines for Wednesday, June 29
Bikini Medicine No More a Joke With Investment in Women’s Health
Bloomberg
More female entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on largely unmet medical needs: their own.
Latest Plan to Cut Medicare Drug Payments Leaves Senators Skeptical
New York Times
Under fire from senators in both parties, a senior federal health official told Congress on Tuesday that the Obama administration would adjust its plan to reduce Medicare payments for many prescription drugs, but those assurances did not fully allay deep concerns.
AstraZeneca Pushes to Protect Crestor From Generic Competition
New York Times
No more than a few hundred American children have a rare disease characterized by ultrahigh levels of bad cholesterol.
FDA approves a Gilead pill that is first to treat all forms of hepatitis C
Stat News
Gilead Sciences won regulatory approval on Tuesday to sell a new hepatitis C combination drug, which can combat all six strains of the disease, and priced it below its older treatments.
Democrats block Zika funding bill, blame GOP
Politico
Congress is poised for an epic failure in its efforts to combat Zika before lawmakers leave Washington for a seven-week vacation — and it could come back to bite Republicans at the ballot box if there’s an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the United States this summer.
Collaborative Care for Depression in a Safety-Net Health System
NEJM Catalyst
Using a collaborative care model, we are integrating mental health into primary care at the country’s largest public health care system, New York City Health + Hospitals.