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SUMMARY:Youth and gender identity and transitioning
DESCRIPTION:More than 5% of U.S. young adults say their gender is different from the sex assigned to them at birth. At the same time\, at least 15 states are currently debating laws that would restrict the types or timing of interventions designed to support young people wishing to change their gender. \nSciLine’s next media briefing will cover: what is known about how gender identity develops\, including the role of external factors such as family\, school\, and community environments; what is involved in the process of medical transition\, including the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments; and research findings on how the outward\, social transition to a different gender — and the age at which that transition occurs — can impact a person’s mental health. Three experts will brief reporters and then take questions on the record. \nFeatured panelists \n● Dr. Jenifer McGuire\, University of Minnesota \n● Dr. Madeline Deutsch\, University of California\, San Francisco \n● Dr. Alex Keuroghlian\, Harvard Medical School and The Fenway Institute \n● SciLine Director Rick Weiss will moderate the briefing. \nWhen/Where:1:00pm EST\, Wednesday\, September 14\, 2022 (Online) \n  \nFind more information and a video about the event\, visit this webpage. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/youth-and-gender-identity-and-transitioning/
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SUMMARY:Understanding the pharmacy benefit manager 'shell game'
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 14\, 1 p.m. ET \nIn this webcast\, Ohio-based\, award-winning journalist Darrel Rowland will explain the strategies pharmacy benefit managers use to boost profits by increasing what patients pay out of pocket for their medications and limiting the drugs that insurers will cover. He’ll also talk about how pharmacy benefit managers have driven smaller and locally owned pharmacies out of business. \nThese strategies and others led the Federal Trade Commission to begin an investigation this spring into the practices of the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark\, Express Scripts\, OptumRx\, Humana Inc.; Prime Therapeutics\, and MedImpact Healthcare Systems — and Rowland will help prepare journalists to report on the outcome of that investigation. \n  \nView the webcast \n  \nLinks\nA press release about a report from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on insulin and the role of PBMs and other actors in the drug-supply chain: \n\n\nhttps://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/grassley-wyden-release-insulin-investigation-uncovering-business-practices-between-drug-companies-and-pbms-that-keep-prices-high \n\n\nThe press release includes a link to all of the material the committee reviewed\, including the full text of the committee’s investigative report and the committee’s records: HERE.   \nAnd here’s a link to the report itself: \n\n\nhttps://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Grassley-Wyden Insulin Report (FINAL 1).pdf \n\n\nHere are links from the Federal Trade Commission on its PBM investigation into PBMs: \n\n\nhttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2022/06/future-pharmaceuticals-examining-analysis-pharmaceutical-mergers \n\n\nFTC-DOJ Listening Forum – Health Care- April 14\, 2022 \n\n\nThe Future of Pharmaceuticals – June 14\, 2022 \n\n\nThe Future of Pharmaceuticals – June 15\, 2022 \n\nMerger Guidelines Listening Forum- June 21\, 2022\n\nOther sources mentioned included: \n\n\nAntonio Ciaccia at 3 Axis Advisors\, a consulting firm\, and at 46Brooklyn Research\, drug-price researchers and on Twitter at @A_Ciaccia \n\n\nAdam J. Fein\, PhD\, CEO of Drug Channels Institute. \n\n\nAnd here’s a link to a report in 2019 from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on what’s called the ‘black box’ in the relationship between health insurers and PBMs: \n\n\nCracking Open the Black Box of Pharmacy Benefit Managers \n\n\n  \nDarrel Rowland \nJoseph Burns \nDarrel Rowland is an independent journalist who has won multiple awards for his work over more than three decades at The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio as a reporter and editor. His work has focused on what he calls accountability stories about pharmacy benefit managers and on a wide variety of other topics. Stories he supervised led to the resignation of an Ohio attorney general\, and he has reported on a scandal in which state officials admitted to improperly withholding $40 million in child-support payments to single parents.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/understanding-the-pharmacy-benefit-manager-shell-game/
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