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DC’s top news anchors raise funds to support breast cancer screenings

By Rachel Nania
Editor's Note: WTOP's Hillary Howard is on the 2018 NewsBash committee. 

WASHINGTON — For the 10th year, D.C.’s well-known female news anchors are joining forces to raise money and awareness for breast cancer services.

The 2018 NewsBash will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Wharf’s new Pearl Street Warehouse. Proceeds benefit Breast Care Washington, an Anacostia-based nonprofit that provides breast cancer screenings to women in D.C.’s Ward 8 neighborhood.

According to the data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, D.C. has one of the highest rates of breast cancer incidence and mortality in the U.S. — most of which is concentrated in Ward 8. Breast Care Washington’s mission is to overcome this disparity through extended services, including 3D mammography and diagnostic procedures.

Tickets to NewsBash range from $75 to $200; the event includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Pink attire is recommended. Members of the NewsBash committee include WTOP’s Hillary Howard and NBC’s Eun Yang, Angie Goff, Melissa Mollet and Lauryn Ricketts, among others.

States seek to lower drug prices by targeting the companies that manage them for health plans

By The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As consumers worry about medication costs, states are trying to lower drug prices by reining in big companies that oversee prescription coverage for health insurers. Some of those companies, called pharmacy benefit managers, also own pharmacies, and one of them, CVS, has spent millions of dollars fighting the regulations. Affordability is a key issue ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Legislators in at least a dozen states passed laws this year to limit compensation to the companies, set minimum payments from the companies to pharmacists and require the companies to disclose more information to their clients, states and the public. A Tennessee law will bar pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail pharmacies as of July 1, 2028, though CVS Health Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit to avoid having to close its 136 pharmacies there.
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