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State officials say ending weight-loss drug coverage for MassHealth and public employees saves tens of millions of dollars, while civil-rights advocates and physicians warn the cuts fall hardest on lower-income patients.
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The administration says every state plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico has signed onto a most-favored-nation pricing model for Medicaid drugs, but independent analysts say the underlying contracts remain confidential.
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The FDA issued a direct final rule on 21 September 2026 that updates terminology on animal testing in drug applications, four years after Congress removed the mandate, and the agency says the change does not alter what companies must actually submit.
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A Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium trial for a fatal childhood brain cancer stalled amid federal funding disruptions, and reporting on the broader pattern shows thousands of trial participants affected nationwide.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remade Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has voted to narrow guidance on childhood shots, prompting a fight over whether the change restores trust or simply swaps one set of gatekeepers for another.
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A class-action complaint filed in San Francisco on 16 September alleges the National Institutes of Health screens grants for forbidden words, raising the harder question of whether federal science funding was ever ideologically neutral.
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