The Ohio House passed a long-delayed bipartisan bill without opposition Wednesday that is designed to enable Ohioans to better afford potentially life-saving medications. The bill bans a practice known as a copay accumulator, in which health insurers refuse to count any copay assistance patients may receive from drugmakers, churches, nonprofits or family members toward the patient’s…
A bill meant to protect health care workers from violence and a rule change to limit press access in the Utah Senate won final legislative approval during a busy morning for the Utah Legislature on Tuesday. The Senate also advanced a slew of other bills, including one to allow increased tax incentives for rural film…
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December 13, 2021 11:07 PM Posted: December 13, 2021 11:07 PM EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WKBT)- Imagine facing a life-threatening diagnosis only to be told by your insurance company that you can’t get the medicine you need when you need it. It’s a practice known as white-bagging and it’s happening to people all over the state….
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A new study shows that users of flavoured e-cigarettes — vapour devices — prefer having the flavours so much that if the flavour choice was taken away from them, many would just go back to smoking conventional cigarettes. This is based in part on a study conducted by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project…
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COMPANY URGES REGULATOR TO MAINTAIN FLAVOURED VAPOUR PRODUCTS MONTREAL, Sept. 2, 2021 /CNW/ – In its submission filed today, Imperial Tobacco Canada outlines the risks to public health posed by Health Canada’s proposal to ban most flavoured vapour products and calls on them to instead support effective measures that advance harm reduction and limit youth…