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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order with proposals to keep people with kidney disease off dialysis longer and make treatment less expensive; encourage more live donations of kidneys and livers; and force the 58 nonprofit groups that collect transplant organs to improve their performance, according to news reports.
The Trump administration’s openness to the idea serves as the latest evidence that it has become increasingly reliant on Capitol Hill for a victory on drug costs. Top officials are scrambling after a court blocked an administration rule that would have required drugmakers to include prescription prices in its ads.
During closely watched oral arguments over the constitutionality of the health law, a federal appeals court voiced skepticism that a central feature of the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, though it appeared to struggle with whether that meant the legislation should be struck down in its entirety. Media outlets take readers inside the courtroom for the play-by-play. Meanwhile, what will happen if the law is struck down? The potential headaches go beyond the big headlines about loss of coverage to calorie information on menus, lactation rooms, and more.
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But they're starting to gain ground against the hoaxers. Meanwhile, a top Virginia Republican proposed surprise legislation that would ban guns in government buildings.
Media outlets report on health news from Texas, Connecticut, California, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Georgia, Minnesota, Louisiana and Florida.
Although the results surprised few, the findings are unlikely to shake Americans' obsession with supplements.
There are still many obstacles that face those who want to access medication to end their lives on their own terms, even after legislation is passed guaranteeing them that right. In other public health news: primary care doctors, Zika, noise in hospitals, cancer research, accessibility apps, and more.
"A bunch of them wouldn't even talk to me," says Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist who spoke out about his experience trying to get off opioids. "And this includes the pain management team. They would not speak with me, and the message they sent through a nurse was, 'We prescribe opioids but we don't help with tapering.'" Other news on the crisis comes from Kentucky, Iowa and Arizona.
Recent decisions in court cases come as concerns mount over the growing consolidation of hospitals and physician practices and the impact on prices and total health spending. In other health industry news: jobs, blood pressure devices, and artificial intelligence.
HHS will announce an agency-wide initiative to encourage home dialysis and also to ramp up better prevention and screening for kidney disease, Politico reports. The plan could upend the kidney care market, and face serious pushback from big dialysis chains that are eager to protect $24 billion a year in revenue.
Gov. Chris Sununu is delaying the penalties tied into the legislation for 120 days as the state continues its outreach efforts to make people aware of the requirements. “Making sure we get this right is just absolutely paramount,” said Sununu. “So the idea of giving ourselves another 120 days to move forward on this and get the implementation where we need it to be, it’s not just fair to the system, but it’s fair to those individuals.” New Hampshire is just the latest state to struggle with the implementation of the work requirements.
A couple is suing a fertility clinic after the woman gave birth to twins who appear to be from different parents. "It's this agonizing process to grow embryos. And it involves almost over 200 different steps and when you assume this happens to thousands of patients every year within that laboratory, all of a sudden you've got a lot of moving parts," says IVF expert Jake Anderson.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is "without authority" to reject referendum petitions against the state's new abortion ban, a court panel ruled. Other news on abortion focuses on IVF, telehealth and the spreading of "Americanized" anti-abortion protests.
Citing cases of unmanaged pain, maggots, bed sores and other failures, the inspector general report takes Medicare to task for what it describes as weak oversight and enforcement of the growing number of hospice providers and recommends stronger safeguards “to protect Medicare hospice beneficiaries from harm."
Cities and counties across the country are starting to crack down on e-cigarettes and other tobacco products. Juul, which dominates the marketplace, is gearing up to battle those efforts while also trying to appease public health officials.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is unlikely to get the more liberal provisions that were dropped from a border aid package earlier this month past the Senate, but the announcement allows the speaker to acknowledge concerns of progressive members of the party who are upset that more has not been done for detainees.
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