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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

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a software-as-a-service that focuses on automated prior authorization services for both medical and pharmaceutical benefits. DrFirst to speed up medication approvals Rockville, Maryland-based DrFirst announced that it purchased all assets of the Myndshft Technologies, Inc.

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State-Level Strategies for Supporting Community-Level Harm Reduction: Case Studies from Georgia, Maryland, Utah, and Vermont

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Harm reduction strategies — or interventions intended to prevent overdoses and reduce negative outcomes related to drug use — are backed by research and have been operational in the U.S. However, access to legally sanctioned and publicly funded harm reduction services has varied in practice. for decades.

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What Type of Salt Should You Buy? Rethinking 1924 Food Fortification Policy in 2024

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However, while some members of the salt industry were excited by the potential to improve public health through their product, others were not. The Morton Salt Company argued that furnishing iodine to the populus properly belonged to large pharmaceutical companies. The mandatory order was later repealed in 1946.

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State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce

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The 2020 West Virginia Behavioral Health Workforce Development Plan , a product of a state-university partnership funded through the federal State Opioid Response (SOR) grant, places specific emphasis on SUD treatment workforce, and highlights the need to engage equity and diversity leaders in behavioral health workforce development.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

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Pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee seems to have catalyzed the administration to make this move. pharmaceutical market. pharmaceutical market. In 1989, the U.S. None of these instances have chilled innovation or resulted in market delays.

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Healthcare Reforms Under the IRA: Expanding Access to Care

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With respect to biological products, however, such drugs must be licensed in accordance with the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”) for at least 11 years, and marketed in conformance with the PHSA. A safe harbor applicable to flat fee arrangements paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers directly to PBMs for PBM services.

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How a National Emergency Can Bring the Monkeypox Outbreak Under Control

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Grossly-underfunded and overwhelmed public health agencies are not able to conduct proper surveillance and face vast shortages of testing services, vaccines, and treatment. Persons experiencing symptoms of monkeypox can be effectively treated with known pharmaceuticals, but accessing them, like vaccines, has proven monumental.