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Reporting raised questions last month as to whether the Biden Cancer Initiative’s connections with for-profit health care companies would pose ethical issues for a possible Biden administration. Greg Simon, the organization’s president, promised that "we remain personally committed to the cause" while announcing the decision.
Former Vice President Joe Biden made a similar vow to voters at an AARP/Des Moines Register forum that then-President Barack Obama made as he was touting the health law. The echo from years past highlights Biden's strategy of building upon the system already in place that has only grown in popularity in recent years. But it could put him out of step with the mood of the party. “Politically, Biden is trapped by his old job,” said Scott Jennings, an appointee in former President George W. Bush’s administration.
All four of the participants at the first of five presidential candidate forums that AARP and the Des Moines Register are sponsoring in Iowa favored a more moderate expansion of health care coverage over progressive "Medicare for All" proposals. Monday's forum in Des Moines featured former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) also says she would work to close a tax loophole for pharmaceutical companies’ direct-to-consumer advertising expenses, and allow the importation of drugs from Canada.
Before and after the controversial episode aired in 2017, health experts warned Netflix about the graphic scene. A later study found that there was a sharp uptick in teen suicides in the month after the show launched.
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An appeals court in Missouri found that the trial of Michael Johnson was fundamentally unfair. Johnson was found guilty in 2015 of neglecting to tell sexual partners he had HIV. He denied those charges. Many laws on "HIV crimes,'' were written in the 1980s. “We don’t charge people with other incurable diseases, like hepatitis, with a criminal offense for exposing others,” said Eric M. Selig, a lawyer who negotiated on Johnson's behalf. On news on HIV is on unexpected costs associated with HIV prevention medicine.
While recent news about Alzheimer's focused on disappointing failed drug trials, two new studies discussed at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference look at how clean living helps lower the chances of developing wasting brain diseases by as much as 60%. Give up red meat, don't smoke, exercise more, read more books and limit red wine to one glass a night. "This research is exciting in that it shows there are actionable things we can do to try to counteract genetic risk for dementia," said Elzbieta Kuźma, a research fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School who worked on one the studies.
A Center for Investigative Reporting report finds that a dozen children arrived at Child Crisis Arizona starting in mid-June, after it garnered a $2.4 million contract to house unaccompanied children through January 2022. It's unclear where the children's parents are. In other news from the crisis at the border: a momentary reprieve in arrests, a commemorative coin's connection to a toxic culture within Border Patrol, ICE raids, and more.
The Tennessean looks at the dramatic negative effects the paperwork system -- which has now been replaced -- had on the state's children. Medicaid news comes out of Indiana, New York and Montana, as well.
The American Hospital Association spoke out in support of CMS' decision to hold off on releasing the ratings, which have long provoked push back from the industry over the methodology the agency uses.
The drug ampicillin, once a mainstay for treating the infections, has been abandoned as a gold standard because multiple strains of UTIs are resistant to it. “This is crazy. This is shocking,” said Lance Price, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University. In other public health news: mental health and apps, sleep training, firefighter suicides, skull fractures in infants, climate change and health, young blood, and more.
When it looked like New York might pass a menthol cigarette ban, tobacco lobbyists invoked Eric Garner -- a man who was killed on Staten Island by police officers enforcing cigarette regulations -- in their arguments that it would disproportionately hurt black residents. The bill was set aside.
The case against Johnson & Johnson was the first of of more than 2,000 actions by state and local governments accusing drug manufacturers of contributing to the epidemic, and is expected to set the tone for the court challenges following it. Meanwhile, the Sackler family is left reeling as details over Purdue Pharma's marketing strategy continue to emerge.
As more states pass strict abortion regulations, advocates for women on both sides of the debate are joining forces to focus on workplace safeguards for new moms. Abortion news comes out of Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia, as well.
The legislation, which passed the House by a 402-12 vote, would fund all current and future medical claims from 9/11 survivors through 2090.
The lawmakers say the pending language in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement “would hinder Congress from taking action to increase competition and enhance patient access to more affordable medicines.”
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