Thursday - March 26, 2026

Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Maryland

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ACCC Celebrates Reintroduction of Policy That Will Bring Early Cancer Detection Tools to Cancer Centers Across the Country
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Feb. 7 -- The Association of Cancer Care Centers (formerly the Association of Community Cancer Centers) issued the following news release: * * * ACCC Celebrates Reintroduction of Policy That Will Bring Early Cancer Detection Tools to Cancer Centers Across the Country "These technological advances in cancer detection are available now, but Medicare must be able to make them accessible. The time is now to pass this bill." - Meagan O'Neill, ACCC Executive Director ACCC rele  more
DEA Publishes New Telemedicine Rules
CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, Feb. 7 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * DEA Publishes New Telemedicine Rules On January 17, 2025, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) unveiled two new rules outlining a regulatory pathway for clinicians' continued use of telemedicine to prescribe medications for the treatment of addiction: a final rule establishing the parameters for the use of telemedicine to prescribe buprenorphine for  more
Horseshoe Crab Board Approves Draft Addendum IX for Public Comment to Consider Multi-Year Specifications for Male-Only Harvest
ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 8 -- The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission issued the following news release: * * * Horseshoe Crab Board Approves Draft Addendum IX for Public Comment to Consider Multi-Year Specifications for Male-Only Harvest Arlington, VA - The Commission's Horseshoe Crab Management Board approved Draft Addendum IX for public comment. The Draft Addendum considers allowing the Board to set specifications for male-only harvest for multiple years. It also considers alternat  more
Johns Hopkins Medicine: Co-Located Cell Types Help Drive Aggressive Brain Tumors
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 8 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: A type of aggressive, treatment-resistant brain tumor has a distinct population of immune cells that support its growth, according to new research led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel-cancer-center) Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel-cancer-center/bloomberg-kimmel-institute-for  more