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Trump quiere quitarles las armas a las personas en crisis, ¿funcionará?
Pidió una expansión de las leyes conocidas como órdenes de protección contra riesgos extremos, que permiten que una corte intervenga cuando alguien muestra señales de alarma de violencia inminente.
Opinion writers weigh in on these health care topics and others.
Media outlets report on news from California, New Hampshire, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, Seattle, Louisiana and Iowa.
The Washington Post looks back at some of the ways state leaders and public health officials reacted during the spread of the measles outbreak this year. “The new normal is getting more nuanced in our communication and better understanding these communities that are vaccine-hesitant,” said Michael Fraser, executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Different Takes: Lessons On How To Deal With Domestic Terrorism From White Nationalists
Editorial pages focus on how to bring an end to mass shootings.
The test, which reveals if amyloid is forming in the brain, can cost $5,000 to $7,000 and isn’t covered by insurance. But don’t rush to judgement, experts warn: amyloid occurs commonly in older people’s brains, yet not everyone with amyloid will develop dementia. Nor does a negative PET scan mean someone won’t develop dementia. Public health news also looks at: racism, binge drinking, trust in science, stylish clothes for disabled teens, heatstroke, sun screen safety, alternative pain management, art therapy, unproven stem cell injections, hospice care, nut allergies and dying well.
A Missouri mother discusses the trauma that a law set to go into effect Aug. 28 would bring to families forced to deliver babies with rare and fatal disorders. News on abortion laws is from Florida, as well.
The new trend of relying on those strategies for those who are underinsured ends up giving an advantage to those with more resources, larger social networks and stories better suited to dramatic online appeals. “We shouldn’t be the solution,” said GoFundMe Chairman Rob Solomon. “We know we’ve become a kind of de facto safety net.… But we’re only scratching the surface of all the need out there.”
“Every time this happens, we say never again. We say we’re going to do something. We say it’s going to change and it hasn’t,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., said. “At the end of the day, without political change, I don’t know that we’ll get the solutions we need. But if this doesn’t do it, I don’t know what will.” Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, and Rep. Tim Ryan from Ohio both went after President Donald Trump, claiming he is a white nationalist. Ryan pointed to a Trump rally held in May during which someone from the audience yelled “shoot them!” when the president asked how to stop the flood of illegal immigrants. Trump didn’t issue a rebuke, and instead joked that “that’s only in the Panhandle [where] you can get away with that statement.”
Series Of Shootings In Chicago So Overwhelmed Hospital It Had To Stop Accepting Patients
Mount Sinai Hospital had to temporarily bypass new patients on the same weekend that two mass shootings rocked the nation. “You have to stop yourself and ask what will it take before we get a handle on what’s going on,” said Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson. “Not only in Chicago, but across the country.”
“Under this plan, I have concern that access to CAR T won’t be universal,” said Jayson Slotnik, a partner at Health Policy Strategies. Some argue Medicare should pay for 80 to 100 percent of the pricey cancer treatment. In other Medicare news, CMS finalizes a long-requested wage index boost.
Unlike other treatment facilities, it doesn’t require training or any kind of license to open a sober home. In that unregulated environment, bad actors have been taking advantage of a population of vulnerable recovering addicts. In other news on the crisis: the legal cases against drugmakers, a look at the areas where opioids flooded in the most, and more.
Advocates Fear That DHS Civil Rights Watchdog Has Little Authority To Act On Mistreatment Complaints
In response to one complaint to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, an attorney received the response: “Please be advised that our complaint process does not provide individuals with legal rights or remedies.” The letter bolstered fears among advocates that the office can do little to protect young detained immigrants.
The American Kidney Fund is supposed to help patients pay for health insurance premiums and other costs for treatment based solely on a patient’s financial need, and not favor companies that donate to it. But a new whistleblower lawsuit claims the charity created a so-called blocked list of dialysis clinics whose patients would not get financial assistance while it made sure patients at clinics operated by DaVita and Fresenius would.
In 1949, then-President Harry Truman promised that under his plan for a national health system “patients will remain free to choose their own doctors,” and it “will not require doctors to become employees of the government.” The decades-old vows echo campaign arguments from today’s presidential candidates, in a sign of just how hard it is to rework such a complex and important part of American life. Meanwhile, the candidates tout their health plans at a labor forum in Nevada.
Saturday’s attack in majority-Hispanic El Paso, Texas, which left at least 20 people dead, was allegedly committed by a 21-year-old white man who is believed to have posted online a manifesto of sorts espousing espousing anti-immigrant and white-nationalist ideology not long before the shooting. Critics of President Donald Trump point to his anti-immigration rhetoric as a contributing factor to the culture that breeds such violence. Meanwhile, the FBI is running a threat assessment to try to stave off any more shootings, following three incidents in the span of one week.
Back-To-Back Mass Shootings Stun Americans Even In Era Rife With Such Deadly Incidents
Two separate gunmen left 29 dead and more injured in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, within 24 hours of each other. In El Paso, the shooter opened fire in a Walmart, in what authorities believe was an attack on Hispanic people. Meanwhile, in Ohio, the motive is still unclear — the gunman was killed by police about 30 seconds after he fired his first shot.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Drugmakers Master Rolling Out Their Own Generics To Stifle Competition
Known as “authorized generics,” in-house spinoffs of brand-name drugs quietly undermine the competition.
Kathy Brandt, A Hospice Expert Who Invited The World Into Her Own Last Days With Cancer, Dies
Kathy Brandt and her wife, Kim Acquaviva, national experts in hospice and palliative care, shared intimate details of Brandt’s experience with terminal cancer before her death Sunday.