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WASHINGTON, DC - The Government Accountability Office directed the federal government to boost national efforts to curb and recover from drug misuse, adding the recommendation to its biennial list of high-risk areas vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - West Virginia University scientists knew it was coming.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Public health officials say it's important to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible to reduce the risk posed by new coronavirus variants.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Only a few months after CMS massively changed how skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed for therapy services, the pandemic hit and threw long-term care operations into a tailspin.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The state will receive more doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week from the federal government than it has since the vaccine roll-out began in mid-December.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The Food and Drug Administration is under increasing pressure from the pharmaceutical industry to address the growing backlog of drug inspections — nearly a year after Covid-19 prompted the agency to halt most plant visits.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.

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