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A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule would require nursing homes to disclose more details about their ownership, including whether private equity or real estate investment trusts have a stake in the facilities or companies providing services onsite.

Why it matters: Biden administration health officials on Monday cited research showing residents in nursing homes acquired by private equity were 11.1% more likely to have a preventable emergency department visit and 8.7% more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization.

While Republicans have largely said that abortion is a state issue following the fall of Roe v. Wade, conservative-led states are now on record backing a nationwide injunction on the use of a key drug used in medication abortions.

Driving the news: 22 Republican state attorneys general filed a brief Monday in a case brought by an anti-abortion group, asking a U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, to block the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone — a move that abortion advocates say would effectively result in a national ban.

The teen mental health crisis is worsening by almost any measure. But it's affecting girls almost twice as much as boys, according to new federal data.

The big picture: A pronounced gender gap in who is experiencing suicidal thoughts, sexual assault and persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness point to the need for more tailored interventions and support.

Congress is venturing into unknown and potentially explosive territory with the first House GOP-led investigation into COVID-19 vaccines.

Why it matters: It’s expected to be a showdown across the spectrum of views on vaccine safety and efficacy, from attempting to undermine public faith in them to trying to bolster confidence.

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Driving the news: At least nine recent deaths in the country have been linked to the Marburg virus, which is highly infectious and has a fatality rate of up to 88%, the WHO said.

Teen girls are experiencing record high levels of sadness and violence, according to a new report published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Driving the news: According to the report, 57% of teen girls in 2021 reported feeling "persistently sad or hopeless" over the past year, up from 36% in 2011 and the highest rate seen in the last decade.

Medication used to treat opioid use disorder has become cheaper over the last several years, but affordability can still be a problem, depending on a patient's insurance, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Why it matters: Experts have called for improved access to medication-assisted treatment like buprenorphine to fight the substance use crisis. But there's uneven access based on cost.

Buzz from celebrities and social media influencers around the off-label use of diabetes drugs for weight loss is prompting a spike in prescriptions and concerns about cost and possible shortages.

The big picture: More than 5 million prescriptions were written for Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic, Wegovy or Rybelsus, or Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro for weight management in 2022, up from about 230,000 in 2019, per Komodo Health.

Employer-sponsored health plans pay significantly more than Medicare for costly physician-administered drugs, threatening access to lifesaving treatments, according to a newly published analysis of claims data and Medicare files.

What they found: Price markups increased between 2016 and 2020 for five of the top 10 drugs that account for the most spending and more than doubled for three: the white blood cell-booster pegfilgrastim and the cancer drugs trastuzumab and rituximab.