First Edition: Monday, Oct. 5, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Onlookers Have Made Up Their Minds About Cornell Sex Assault Case; 340B Policy Must Adapt For Drugs With Multiple Uses
Opinion writers explore these topics and others.
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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed
Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to read. Today's selections are on cancer drugs, PFAS, McDonald's, and more.
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Doctors Without Borders Worker Evacuated To Netherlands After Contracting Ebola
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that about 254 health workers have been infected and 50 have died since the outbreak began in May. Separately, as flu season picks up, San Francisco reports its first death. California health data show 26 people have died from flu so far this season.
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Medicare Advantage Plans Will Cost More And Cover Less In 2027
According to federal data released this week, the 2027 plans will eliminate broad networks of doctors and hospitals, cut benefits, and raise out-of-pocket costs for seniors. Insurers' press releases, however, are presenting their plans as robust, Healthcare Dive noted.
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Arizona Prison Healthcare Takeover Will Continue After Supreme Court Blocks State Appeal
While asking the courts to delay the takeover, Arizona's attorneys claimed that the corrections department was not given enough time to make progress and argued that the official appointed to run healthcare operations wouldn’t be politically accountable, AP reported. On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied the state’s request. Arizona's prison healthcare system has received complaints for the past 14 years and was found to have exposed prisoners to harm and preventable deaths.
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After Botched Execution, Questions Swirl As Tennessee Inmate Receives Lifesaving Care At Vanderbilt Facility
Christa Pike told the execution team that she felt burning and pain while they were trying to deliver the lethal drug into her system. Joel Zivot, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine who previously was retained by Pike's legal team as a medical expert, offered a theory that the IV lines failed during the procedure, causing pentobarbital to leak outside the veins rather than fully entering Pike's circulation, Newsweek wrote. Pike's prognosis is unclear.
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Senate Committee Looks For Ways To Block White House Interference In Medical Research Grants
Bipartisan Senate appropriators are looking for language that could be added to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11, Roll Call reported. Meanwhile, STAT reported that NIH grants around race and health disparities saw cuts this year.
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21 Drugs Are Cleared For Back-End Payments In Revised Pilot Of 340B Program
Come Jan. 1, 10 pharmaceutical companies will pay rebates to providers only after it's been established that qualifying drugs were dispensed to eligible patients. Drugmakers have expressed concern that there is waste and fraud in the program, an allegation that hospitals say is overblown.
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First Edition: Friday, Oct. 2, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Childhood GLP-1 Use Is A Way To Ward Off Future Health Problems; PCPs Charging For Emails Is Counterproductive
Editorial writers delve into these public health issues.
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Research Roundup: The Latest Science, Discoveries, And Breakthroughs
Each week, KFF Health News compiles a selection of health policy studies and briefs.
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Clairity Breast Is The New AI Tool Helping Women Assess Breast Cancer Risk
The tool, which will be offered by digital health company Everlywell, will assess a woman's five-year breast cancer risk using a single mammogram image. The test will not be covered by insurance and will cost $249.
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Gastroenterologists Top Specialty Starting Salaries This Year
While most physician specialties saw an increase in their average starting salary this year, the specialty that had the greatest year-over-year salary increase was urology, with a 22.5% increase, while gastroenterology had the highest average starting salary, according to an AMN Healthcare analysis. Also in the news: Luminis Health's MyChart is restored after a cyberattack; Epic Systems uses AI to help safeguard medical records; and more.
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High Cancer Rates In Iowa Due Mostly To Known Risk Factors, Report Shows
According to Iowa Public Radio, the state-funded report showed that 76% of the state's excess cases could be explained when controlled for risk factors like age, race, and alcohol and tobacco use, among others. This suggests that "prevention efforts targeting modifiable risk factors would reduce the number of excess cases of cancer in Iowa," the state with one of the highest rates of cancer in the country.
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Students Across US Would Have To Part With Devices At School Under Proposed Legislation
Cellphone bans, intended in part to improve students' mental health, are already in place in most states. This bipartisan legislation would provide money for states to add secure storage spots to enforce bans. Students with special education or medical needs would be able to keep their devices.
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Pennsylvania Logs Fifth Measles-Related Death Of A Person Who Wasn’t Vaccinated
As the Keystone State copes with an expanding measles outbreak, health officials in California are monitoring a mumps outbreak at San Diego State University that has sickened 14 people. Meanwhile, Vaccines.gov, a website operated by the CDC that helps people find nearby places to get shots, is not working.
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As Clock Hits Zero, Trump Wins Fight To Cancel $810M In Health-Related Funds; 100K Legal Immigrants Lose Medicaid
On Wednesday, a single Republican senator successfully blocked Democrats' efforts to stop President Donald Trump's so-called pocket rescission. Trump can now slash congressionally approved funding for several programs that focused on immigrant services, gender transition, carbon emissions, and more, The Washington Post reported. In related news: Refugees, asylum seekers, and some immigrants with legal status lose Medicaid coverage as of today, Bloomberg reported.
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Woman On Tennessee Death Row Survives Two Lethal Injections
Convicted murderer Christa Pike received two syringes of pentobarbital Wednesday night but did not lose consciousness, legal filings show. Pike still had a heartbeat and was snoring before she was taken to a hospital, The New York Times reported. Her medical condition was unclear this morning. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ordered an investigation and postponed the state's one remaining execution scheduled for this year, USA Today reported.
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First Edition: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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