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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
Five New Hampshire medical providers were honored today at the Annual Immunization Conference, sponsored by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Immunization Program, for their high standard of excellence in immunizations.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has invited controversial EPA chief Scott Pruitt to New Hampshire seeking his help with a new “overly burdensome” municipal storm water discharge permit, a request that has caused concern among some environmentalists.
To persuade payers and the public, the industry has deployed a potent new ally, a company whose marquee figures are leading economists and health care experts at the nation’s top universities.
Richard Rosen is an entrepreneur who is proposing to build two high-tech greenhouses in the city. But over the last six years, similar projects he proposed in four other locations didn’t happen.
“The Court’s decision is a tremendous win for consumers, employers, healthcare providers, and other health insurers who compete in this State,” said Attorney General Joseph Foster.
On Senate Floor, Shaheen Calls out President Trump and Republican Leadership in Congress for their “dangerous obsession with rolling back women’s reproductive rights.”
The long arm of the pharmaceutical industry continues to pervade practically every area of medicine, reaching those who write guidelines that shape doctors’ practices, patient advocacy organizations, letter writers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and even oncologists on Twitter, according to a series of papers on money and influence published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, co-sponsored legislation to help reduce the cost of prescription drugs for seniors by allowing Medicare to negotiate the best possible price for prescription drugs.
A survey of 338 randomly selected licensed tobacco outlets across the state found that 16.6% of tobacco retail sales in 2015 were to children under that age of 18, an uptick from 2014, when 14.4% of sales were to youth.