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Spanberger introduces bill to hold PBMs accountable Published Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2021, 8:16 pm Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© BillionPhotos.com – stock.adobe.com) Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) led the introduction of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from hurting hospitals and clinics that participate in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Spanberger introduced the legislation alon...

by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist's Resource April 13, 2021 h1 The multibillion-dollar costs of firearm injuries: Research and resources to consider /h1 p class "byline" by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist's Resource br April 13, 2021 /p p Mass shootings in the U.S. often attract national media coverage. They’re horrific, they upend the lives of numerous victims and families, and they’ve become increasingly common over the past two decades. /p p Less covered nationally, but deserving of more media attention, is the everyday toll of gun violence -- particularly injuries, which ...

VCU reverses decision to delay thousands of second-dose vaccinations as Virginia unrolls new allocation strategy Staff at VCU Medical Center in Richmond receive 4,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: VCU) By Kate Masters | Virginia Mercury | January 28, 2021 at 3:09 PM EST - Updated January 28 at 3:09 PM Thousands of employees at Virginia Commonwealth University were notified Wednesday that the system was delaying their second-dose appointments for COVID-19 vaccine — a move that would have affected VCU Health workers along with some university staff, faculty and stude...

Virginia hospitals to release 2nd COVID-19 vaccine doses now By: Melissa Hipolit and last updated 2021-01-28 12:25:43-05 RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia hospital systems have been asked by the state to release their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine now. Those doses were scheduled to be used over the next one to three weeks. Dr. Danny Avula, the head of the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts and the Governor's vaccine czar, said roughly 300,000 vaccine doses that remain to be used, are second doses. Those second doses can't be used for one to three weeks if they're used as seco...

Senators Raise Concerns Over Pending Ouster of Military Medical University President Richard Thomas, president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, makes his remarks during the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program intern graduation in the NMCP auditorium. (Kris Lindstrom/U.S. Navy) 15 Jan 2021 Defense Department officials have delayed a meeting on whether to fire the president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USUHS, a retired Army two-star general who has led the military medical school for nearly five years. According to a source wit...