Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Medical Reporter at NBC News
Medical Reporter @NBCNews, covering FDA and Pharma 💊 IG: BerkeleyJr
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Rural hospitals across the U.S. - many already hanging by a thread - could take a serious hit if a proposed Medicaid cut in the Senate's domestic spending bill is signed into law. The provision, outlined in the 549-page bill released by the Senate Finance Committee on Monday, would gradually limit states' use of Medicaid's so-called provider tax. Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and states.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
A new Food and Drug Administration AI tool that could speed up reviews and approvals of medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps is struggling with simple tasks, according to two people familiar with it. The tool — which is still in beta testing — is buggy, doesn’t yet connect to the FDA’s internal systems and has issues when it comes to uploading documents or allowing users to submit questions, the people say.
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4 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
May 30, 2025, 8:00 AM EDTA combination drug treatment doubled survival time for patients with an aggressive form of colorectal cancer, according to late-stage trial data published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Julie Tsirkin |Olympia Sonnier
May 28, 2025, 6:00 PM EDTSILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, said Wednesday that the decision of whether a pregnant woman should get a Covid vaccine should come down to a conversation with her doctor — not a recommendation by the federal government. Makary took part in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, said Wednesday that the decision of whether a pregnant woman should get a Covid vaccine should come down to a conversation with her doctor — not a recommendation by the federal government. Makary took part in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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