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By removing users ability to see how many likes their followers got but allowing them to see likes on their own posts, might make social media less stressful. But marketing agencies say the change would not be beneficial for businesses looking to market through high-profile users. Other news on mental health comes from California, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Illinois.
The Wall Street Journal lifts the curtain on the behind-the-scenes work to build a public health legal challenge against a big company. In other public health news: football and CTE, caregivers, bias in science, dementia fears, screen time for toddlers, foster care, and more.
Even though food experts have been warning people for years, the cultural norm of washing the turkey at Thanksgiving has persisted.
Jeffrey Epstein's death has thrown a spotlight on the federal prison system, which has been plagued by staff shortages and chronic violence accusations for years.
The FTC, however, says the deals cost U.S. consumers an estimated $3.5 billion annually. In other pharmaceutical news: anti-trust probes, a billionaire couple's work to move the House drug pricing bill through, the strategy behind Novartis' recent acquisition, brain boosting supplements, and more.
“Everybody’s been waiting for this moment where the flood gate of new treatments is opening,” said Dr. Biree Andemariam, chief medical officer of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. But the new drug is expensive: Global Blood Therapeutics priced Oxbryta at $125,000 a year.
PhRMA, which is responsible for 90 percent of the Addiction Policy Forum's funding, will walk back and then end its support by 2020. The forum was at the eye of previous controversy, with critics blasting the fact that most of its funding came from the drugmakers who they said were responsible for the crisis in the first place. News on the opioid epidemic comes out of Massachusetts and Ohio, as well.
In the months after Customs and Border Protection rejected the recommendation, at least two children died after being diagnosed with the flu while in custody.
CDC scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious vaping illness that has spread across the country in recent months. The Washington Post looks at the bumps and successes they've had along the way.
Warnings are being issued at all levels of the party--from union members to candidates running in swing states. “We won in Kentucky and Louisiana, barely, in part, because we won on health care. I don’t think we can afford to lose on health care," Gov. Gina Raimondo (D-R.I.) said. Meanwhile, industry opponents for "Medicare for All" are starting to go after the moderates' health plans as well. In other election news, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has a plan to expand mental health treatment.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers weigh in on these health care topics and others.
Media outlets report on news from Indiana, Texas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Florida, Minnesota, and Missouri.
Editorial pages focus on efforts to stem the rising costs of health care.
Heavier people get sicker and are also more likely to spread the disease, researchers said, and that has the potential to amplify a flu outbreak. Public health news is on including family in holiday workouts, air pollution's impact on the brain, cancer treatments for the elderly, California's Healthy Blue Zone, dangers from probiotic bacteria, skin-lightening products, a mysterious lung ailment, push back against vets' service dogs, and dengue fevers risks for travelers.
No deaths have been reported so far, but this strain of bacteria is the same one that caused outbreaks the last 2 years and wreaks havoc on kidney functions.
Investigators found no malicious intent, and no one was punished as a result of the unread scans.
Medical examiners have found that the crib bumpers have been linked to at least 35 deaths across the country. But the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission health science team keeps rejecting the rulings. Other news coming out of federal agencies focuses on a panel that helps consumers navigate alternative medical approaches and questions about how medical research is being used.
Even the application fees can be prohibitive, let alone the rest of the cost of medical school. In an industry that leans predominately toward the upper class, low-income students are left wondering how that's ever going to change.
Artificial intelligence is starting to take over some jobs that nurses typically perform, like asking a patient about symptoms. But experts say there will always need to be the human touch when it comes to care. Meanwhile, HIPPA's in the spotlight following Google's Project Nightingale revelation. What exactly does it cover?
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