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It's certainly the route to a pardon.Except defrauding Medicare/Medicaid is the route to a government job!
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay.
The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.
A school-age child in Los Angeles County who had measles as an infant has died of a rare complication, the county health department said Thursday.
The child was infected before they were eligible to receive the measles vaccine, the agency says; the first vaccination is recommended between 12 months and 15 months of age, followed by a second dose between ages 4 and 6.
They recovered from that infection but developed a condition called subacute sclerosing panenecephalitis, which affects about 1 in 10,000 unvaccinated people who get measles overall but up to 1 in 600 of those who catch the virus in infancy.
SSPE, as the complication is also known, develops years after measles infection and can cause changes in personality or behavior, problems with speech and motor functions, and epilepsy, followed by a vegetative state. There’s no cure, and it’s fatal in about 95% of cases.
Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare.gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday.
The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.
A handful of studies from the U.S. and Europe have found modest increases in autism risk among the offspring of people who took acetaminophen while pregnant. The largest recent study, however, found no effect. The 2024 analysis looked at nearly 2.5 million people born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. The researchers found a very small increase in the prevalence of autism among the progeny of people who took acetaminophen while they were pregnant compared with the offspring of those who didn’t—the risk was 0.09 percentage points higher. This elevated risk disappeared when researchers just looked at sibling-pair cases in which a person took acetaminophen during one pregnancy and not the other, however. This suggests that what initially looked like an elevated risk of autism from acetaminophen during pregnancy may have been a result of other risk factors.
The most obvious factor that could be influencing these results is the reason people take Tylenol during pregnancy in the first place. The drug is used to relieve pain and to reduce fever. “In none of these studies do I see where [the researchers] were able to separate out the effects of prenatal infection from the acetaminophen use,” Mandell says.
