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Republican Gov. Mike Parson praised the court decision to uphold sections of the law preventing abortions based on sex, race or Down syndrome, which are separate from the eight-week ban struck down by U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs. The temporary stay against Missouri's 8-week ban is similar to the fate similar legislation in other states has faced.
There haven't been any product recalls or warnings from the government despite the number of cases climbing to nearly 200 across more than a dozen states. But federal officials say they are investigating leads on the cause of the illnesses.
Philip Morris and Altria Group may reunite after more than 10 years. The merger has the potential to super-charge efforts by Juul -- which Atria has a stake in --
to expand overseas, bolstered by the global marketing power of Philip Morris.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's new ad highlights both the 1972 car crash that put his sons in the hospital and Beau Biden's battle with brain cancer. “I couldn’t imagine what it would have been like if we didn’t have the health care they needed immediately,” Biden says in the spot. Health care has become a dividing line between the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, with moderates like Biden pushing for an expanded version of the health law while progressives argue for more sweeping changes.
The Oklahoma opioids case exposed cracks in Johnson & Johnson's reputation, some say. The New York Times looks at the company's history and where it got involved in the epidemic. In other news on the national drug crisis: questions about where to spend opioid settlement money bubble up; analysts try to guess how the Oklahoma settlement will effect others; and more.
According to reports on settlement talks, the bulk of the funds would come from restructuring Purdue Pharma under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would transform it from a private company into a “public beneficiary trust.” That would allow the profits from all drug sales, including the opioid painkiller OxyContin, to go to the plaintiffs of a nationwide consolidated lawsuit over the alleged role drugmakers played in the epidemic. The company would also give its addiction treatment drugs to the public without cost.
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Heat-related deaths are tripling in some cities, according to the latest information from the CDC, causing health officials to look at new ways to combat rising temperatures. “Phoenix and other cities of the Southwest are the canary in the coal mine,” said David Hondula, a professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Public health news looks at live donor advantages, optimism and longevity, erectile dysfunction among football players, children's nutrition, impending crisis in elder care, healthy dog owners, vaping injuries and marijuana brownies.
The New Jersey city was recently forced to start distributing bottled water when testing found filters were failing to adequately remove lead. But the issue has been around for years, provoking anger and confusion from the residents.
The American Federation of Teachers' proposals "have been informed by members’ firsthand experiences in schools and communities touched by gun massacres," said President Randi Weingarten. Meanwhile, public officials in St. Louis and Kansas City are grappling with an alarming upswing in gun violence in recent weeks.
Stat has been in a years-long legal battle in the Kentucky court system to unseal the records. Those files could contain new information about how Purdue promoted OxyContin and what executives knew about the risk of addiction that came with the drug. Other news on the opioid crisis comes out of New York, Florida and Illinois.
As cancer treatments become more personalized and expensive, insurers are putting their foot down over covering the care when less-expensive options are available. Meanwhile, an Iowa man had his insurance cut off because he worked too few hours -- after having a heart attack.
Advocates, lawyers, doctors, and lawmakers said the blanket policy change was made without any consideration of the potentially disastrous health affects it will have on children and adults whose home countries don't have treatment for HIV, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, leukemia, and other diseases. “Can anyone imagine the government ordering you to disconnect your child from life-saving care — to pull them from a hospital bed — knowing that it will cost them their lives?” said Anthony Marino, head of immigration legal services at the Irish International Immigrant Center.
An FDA said Novartis scientists were “already aware” of the issues with the test and had run an independent analysis of corrected data the company submitted to the agency. In other pharmaceutical news, Britsol-Myers moves closer to completing its acquisition of Celgene.
The Missouri law is scheduled to take effect Wednesday. Similar bans have been knocked down by the courts, and the state's argument relied heavily on whether Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have legal standing to oppose the law rather than the constitutionality of the legislation. Other abortion and women's health news comes out of California and Louisiana.
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