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YaSheka Shaw (left) celebrates losing weight during a checkup with medical student Kaniya Pierre Louis (center) and physician Zita Magloire. (Sarah Jane Tribble/KFF News)

Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?

Sarah Jane Tribble
Young woman getting online medical help and advice during video-call with doctor (iStock/Getty Images)

It’s “telehealth vs. no care”: Doctors say Congress risks leaving patients vulnerable

Sarah Jane Tribble
A general view of Novavax vaccine vials as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

Novavax missed its global moonshot but is angling to win over mRNA defectors

Arthur Allen, Sarah Jane Tribble
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

How Fauci and the NIH got ahead of the FDA and CDC in backing boosters

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen
A doctor prepares syringes that contain the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at a mobile vaccination center in the Markkleeberg suburb town hall on May 10, 2021 in Leipzig, Germany. Germany has succeeded in accelerating its nationwide vaccinations in recent weeks. Approximately one third of the population has received a first dose. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Rush to boosters sparks confusion, differing recommendations

Sarah Jane Tribble
Medical syringes are seen with Pfizer company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on October 12, 2020. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer CEO to public: just trust us on the COVID booster

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Trump adds a global pricing plan to wide attack on drug prices, but doubts persist

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Unwitting patients, copycat comments play hidden role in federal rule-making

Sarah Jane Tribble
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Déjà voodoo: Pharma’s promises to curb drug prices have been heard before

Jay Hancock, Sarah Jane Tribble
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How a drugmaker turned the abortion pill into a rare-disease profit machine

Sarah Jane Tribble

FDA head vows to tackle high drug prices and drugmakers “gaming the system”

Sarah Jane Tribble, Liz Szabo
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Trump’s budget proposal swings at drug prices with a glancing blow

Sarah Jane Tribble
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FDA Chief open to rethinking incentives on orphan drugs

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Experts tell Congress how to cut drug prices. We give you some odds

Sarah Jane Tribble
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Will Medicare patients get a cut of prescription deals?

Sarah Jane Tribble

Drug rebates reward industry players — and often hurt patients

Sarah Jane Tribble
This Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 photo shows a display of prescription medicines for impotence and sexual problems at a doctor's office in San Diego. For many couples, doctors say soaring prices for the prescriptions have made sex unaffordable. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (AP)

A major drug company left its lobbying group over a drug price controversy

Sarah Jane Tribble
FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo, shows the drug Lipitor at Medco Health Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. A new study shows very long-term benefits from even short-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

Big pharma is “getting away with murder”: Drugmakers help turn patients with rare diseases into D.C. lobbyists

Sarah Jane Tribble
The Orphan Drug Act is being investigated for abuses (AP)

GAO to launch investigation of FDA’s Orphan Drug Program

Sarah Jane Tribble