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👤 The author 📋 Navigation Menu 🏷️ Harvard Gazette , Health

Simplified: Health is a section of Harvard Gazette

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Study offers new theory of disease and strategy for fighting it 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Science

Simplified: Study offers new theory of disease and strategy for fighting Alzheimer's

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The chair of the committee drafting the ACA legislation, Senator Max Baucus, was at the time the single largest recipient of health industry political donations, with $1.5m given to his political fund... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Political , Finance , Health

Simplified: Senator Max Baucus was largest recipient of health industry donations with $1.5 million given to his fund.

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Chaffetz, as chair of the committee on oversight and government reform, led an effort against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce opioid prescribing by recommending that doctors f... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Political , Health , Regulation

Simplified: Chaffetz led effort against CDC to reduce opioid prescribing recommending alternative treatments for chronic pain.

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Bono said the American Medical Association was instrumental in blocking another law, the Ryan Creedon act, to require doctors to get training on the risks of opioids. 0.900

👤 Bono 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Political , Regulation

Simplified: American Medical Association blocked Ryan Creedon Act requiring doctor training on opioid risks according to Bono.

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Some of the pressure came through industry-funded groups such as the Pain Care Forum, which spent $740m over a decade lobbying in Washington and state legislatures against limits on opioid prescribing... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Lobbying , Finance , Health

Simplified: Pain Care Forum spent $740 million over a decade lobbying against opioid prescribing limits according to Center for Public Integrity.

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Bono, who was alerted to the opioid crisis after Chesare, her son with the late singer Sonny Bono, became addicted, said there was a false but effective campaign by companies profiting from the epidem... 0.900

👤 Bono 📋 News Article 🏷️ Health , Political , Pharmaceuticals

Simplified: Companies profiting from opioid epidemic ran false campaign portraying painkiller prescription limits as depriving chronic pain treatment according to...

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While lobbying shapes medical policy across the board, it has had a profound impact on the opioid epidemic as deaths quadrupled between 1999 and 2015. 0.900

👤 Chris McGreal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Pharmaceuticals , Health

Simplified: Lobbying has profoundly impacted the opioid epidemic as deaths quadrupled 1999-2015

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Instead, the pharmaceutical companies can charge whatever price they want for drugs bought for the publicly run Medicare and Medicaid programmes – and the federal government has no choice but to pay u... 0.900

👤 Chris McGreal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Pharmaceuticals , Finance , Health

Simplified: Pharmaceutical companies can charge any price for drugs bought for Medicare and Medicaid

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Tom Marino might have withdrawn from consideration as Trump’s drug czar, but drug money is coursing through the veins of Congress – contributing directly to an epidemic that kills thousands of America... 0.900

👤 Chris McGreal 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance , Health

Simplified: Drug money courses through Congress contributing to an epidemic killing thousands

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Together, we must substantially lower the cost of prescription drugs. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: We must substantially lower the cost of prescription drugs.

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I will be introducing legislation to allow patients, pharmacists and wholesalers to purchase affordable prescription drugs from Canada, the United Kingdom and other major countries with strong safety... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Regulation

Simplified: Author will introduce legislation allowing purchase of affordable drugs from Canada United Kingdom other major countries.

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I will soon be introducing legislation to cut the price of prescription drugs by at least 50% by preventing the pharmaceutical industry from charging more for medicine in the U.S. than they do in Cana... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: Author will introduce legislation to cut drug prices by at least 50% by preventing higher US prices than Canada Britain Germany France Japan.

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If this legislation were signed into law, it would save Medicare $835 billion over the next decade and cut the price Medicare pays for prescription drugs in half. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: Legislation would save Medicare $835 billion over next decade and cut Medicare drug prices in half.

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I will not support any nominee to lead a federal health care agency until the administration releases a comprehensive plan to substantially lower the price of prescription drugs. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Political

Simplified: Author will not support nominee to lead federal health care agency until administration releases plan to lower drug prices.

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Last month, I introduced legislation to require Medicare to pay no more for prescription drugs than the Department of Veterans Affairs – an agency that has been negotiating with the big drug companies... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Regulation

Simplified: Author introduced legislation last month requiring Medicare to pay no more for drugs than Department of Veterans Affairs.

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I asked HHS to use its authority under existing law to break the patent monopoly on Leqembi if the manufacturers of this drug refuse to lower its price. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Regulation

Simplified: Author asked HHS to break patent monopoly on Leqembi if manufacturers refuse to lower price.

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On June 6, I wrote to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make sure that taxpayers and Medicare recipients are not forced to pay $26,500 for the new Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi – which in... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: Author wrote to HHS on June 6 to prevent taxpayers Medicare recipients paying $26500 for Leqembi.

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independent experts estimated should be lowered to $8,900. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: Independent experts estimated Leqembi should be lowered to $8900.

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This month, the HELP Committee released a report finding that half of prescription drugs invented with the assistance of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now cost over $111,000. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Op-Ed 🏷️ Health , Finance

Simplified: HELP Committee report found half of NIH-assisted prescription drugs cost over $111000 this month.

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