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A technicality could keep RSV shots from kids in need

Author:: Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: February 7, 2023

A glitch in congressional language may make it difficult to allow children from low-income families to get an RSV shot as readily as the well-insur...

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$38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Author:: Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: October 27, 2022

The first issue is unrelenting price increases on old drugs that have remained branded as manufacturers find ways to extend patents for decades and...

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Pediatricians want kids to be part of COVID vaccine trials

Author:: Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News

Publish date: December 17, 2020

If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren’t expanded soon to include children, it’s unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated i...