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An FDA panel recommended approval of a marijuana-derived medicine for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy; prescriptions for opioid painkillers continued to fall while the number of new monthly prescriptions for medications that treat opioid use disorder nearly doubled over the past 2 years; GOP candidates in midterm races this fall are retreating from calls to further dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

A Virginia Republican-led House Appropriations Committee agreed to expand enrollment in the state’s Medicaid program, imposing tougher work requirements on recipients in an attempt at gaining acceptance in the state Senate; there’s a growing industry that makes money by coaxing women into having surgery to remove their vaginal mesh implants, sometimes unnecessarily; HHS Secretary Alex Azar was admitted to a hospital after suffering "a minor infection."

Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator Kamala Harris ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions to get the DEA to allow medical marijuana research; current and former executives of pharmaceutical distributors are scheduled to testify before Congress May 8 about their role in the opioid epidemic; 14 patients on Vieques, a Puerto Rican island just east of the main island, are flying 3 times a week for lifesaving dialysis more than 6 months after Hurricane Maria.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is leaving Congress at the end of the year without success on spending cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; the FDA is conducting a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University professor who injected people with his unauthorized herpes vaccine; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is "aggressively" looking into reports that it solicited funding from the alcohol industry for a study on the benefits of moderate drinking.

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at forcing low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid, and low-income housing subsidies to get jobs or lose benefits; in the midst of a debate over dysfunction at the VA, there are tens of thousands of full- and part-time vacancies nationwide; a privately-run, family-owned hospital in rural Bowie, Texas, doesn't accept commercial insurance, has drawn attention of state health inspectors, and charges unusually high rates with an "out-of-network" model.

New legislation in Congress would prohibit limiting what pharmacists can tell patients about the cheapest way to pay for their prescriptions; drug companies, researchers, and health officials are trying to develop an overdose-reversal treatment that is more successful than naloxone against synthetic opioids; a Texas lawsuit seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act is being opposed by 16 Democratic attorneys general.

Eight years ago today, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. In honor of the anniversary, we took a look at search trends of Affordable Care Act vs Obamacare over time, search interest for healthcare.gov by state, and search interest in repeal and replace over time



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