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Azar defends Trump drug pricing proposals, pushing back against criticism | Stat
Critics say that Trump's ideas for lowering drug costs, contained in his most recent budget proposal, won't actually change much. But Alex Azar begs to differ.
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HHS wants to leverage data to track controlled substance prescribing | Health Data Management
Trump included in his budget proposal a requirement for states to track "high-risk billing activity" to spot prescribing and use patterns that could be evidence of abusing Medicaid.
FDA budget requests include clinical software, natural language processing, real-time device data | Mobihealthnews
In his budget request for fiscal year 2018, the FDA head proposed building a natural language processing-enabled medical data enterprise so clinical data could influence product review.
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Diplomats in Cuba suffered brain injuries. Experts still don't know why. | The New York Times
Some American diplomats in Cuba seem to have concussion symptoms. But they were never hit in the head. It's unclear what caused their brain injuries. Some say it could have been a "sonic attack," but the FBI said that wasn't the case.
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